When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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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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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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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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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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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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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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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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Think inside the work – outside the work
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