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 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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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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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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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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Everybody is entertained to death.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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I 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.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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American television really is pathetic.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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