Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
BRIAN ENOFor 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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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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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Law is always better than war.
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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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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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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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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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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I often work by avoidance.
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