I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
BRIAN ENOI always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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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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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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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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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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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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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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