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.
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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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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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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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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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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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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Law is always better than war.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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