When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
BRIAN ENOWhen you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
BRIAN ENOI want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
BRIAN ENOAmbient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
BRIAN ENOThe idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
BRIAN ENOLook closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
BRIAN ENOLaw is always better than war.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
BRIAN ENOThe biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
BRIAN ENOAdmirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
BRIAN ENOOne of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
BRIAN ENOI believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
BRIAN ENOCulture is everything you don’t have to do.
BRIAN ENOA responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
BRIAN ENOI hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
BRIAN ENOSet up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
BRIAN ENOWhat happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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