It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
BRIAN ENOIf I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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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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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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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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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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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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When 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.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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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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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Of 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.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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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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