Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
BRIAN ENOMost game music is based on loops effectively.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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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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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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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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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.
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