I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can 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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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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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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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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American television really is pathetic.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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 suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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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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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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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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