Everybody is entertained to death.
BRIAN ENOThere are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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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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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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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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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 infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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I 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.
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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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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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