The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
BRIAN ENOEditing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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