In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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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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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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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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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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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I 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?
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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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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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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So, 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.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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