I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
BRIAN ENOBut now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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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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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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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.
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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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