One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
BRIAN ENOAs struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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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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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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I often work by avoidance.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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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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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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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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