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.
BRIAN ENOI do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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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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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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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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