When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
BRIAN ENOMusic in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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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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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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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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American television really is pathetic.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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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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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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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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