Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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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Everybody is entertained to death.
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There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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One 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.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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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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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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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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What 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.
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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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