The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
BRIAN ENOEverybody is entertained to death.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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I 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.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Law is always better than war.
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Sometimes 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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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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