I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENOWell, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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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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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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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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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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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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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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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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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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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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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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