I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
BRIAN ENOI don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
BRIAN ENOMy guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
BRIAN ENOThe idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
BRIAN ENOI’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.
BRIAN ENOThe great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
BRIAN ENOThe basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
BRIAN ENOI think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
BRIAN ENOI love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
BRIAN ENOPerhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
BRIAN ENOI got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
BRIAN ENOSaying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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.
BRIAN ENOOne of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
BRIAN ENOIn terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
BRIAN ENOThe 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.
BRIAN ENOI believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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