My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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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.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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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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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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I often work by avoidance.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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