Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENOWhen 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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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 wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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I often work by avoidance.
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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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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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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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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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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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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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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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