Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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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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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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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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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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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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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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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