The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
BRIAN ENOI’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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 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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When 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.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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American television really is pathetic.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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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’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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