If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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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 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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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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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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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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