The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
BRIAN ENOThe whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Every 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.
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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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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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American television really is pathetic.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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