There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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 still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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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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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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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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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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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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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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