Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
BRIAN ENOWell, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
BRIAN ENOI think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
BRIAN ENOWhat I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
BRIAN ENOI often work by avoidance.
BRIAN ENOIt’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
BRIAN ENOThe thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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.
BRIAN ENOOne of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
BRIAN ENOBe the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
BRIAN ENOLyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
BRIAN ENOI had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
BRIAN ENOEvery 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.
BRIAN ENOFor instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
BRIAN ENOPerhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
BRIAN ENOI think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
BRIAN ENOSometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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