I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
BRIAN ENOSo, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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I believe in singing.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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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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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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I 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.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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