If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
BRIAN ENOOnce I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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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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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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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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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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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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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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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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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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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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