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.
BRIAN ENOOf course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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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 hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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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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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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