I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
BRIAN ENOThe 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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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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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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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.
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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I believe in singing.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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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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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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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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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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