If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
BRIAN ENOFeelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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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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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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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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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?”
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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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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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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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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