I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
BRIAN ENOI think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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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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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I believe in singing.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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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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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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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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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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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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