The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
BRIAN ENOTry to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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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 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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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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What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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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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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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American television really is pathetic.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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