The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Once 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.
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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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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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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’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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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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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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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.
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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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