If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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