My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
BRIAN ENOAs struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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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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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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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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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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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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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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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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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