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.
BRIAN ENOWhen I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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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 believe in singing.
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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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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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American television really is pathetic.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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