I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
BRIAN ENOWhen I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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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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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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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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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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