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.
BRIAN ENOThe seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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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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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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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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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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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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