Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
BRIAN ENOI’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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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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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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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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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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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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