I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
BRIAN ENOI felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
BRIAN ENOFor instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
BRIAN ENOI’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.
BRIAN ENOIt’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
BRIAN ENOI want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
BRIAN ENOI love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
BRIAN ENOA responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
BRIAN ENOPainting, I think it’s like jazz.
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.
BRIAN ENOWith all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
BRIAN ENOGiven the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
BRIAN ENOQuite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
BRIAN ENOEmotion creates reality, reality demands action.
BRIAN ENOMy lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
BRIAN ENOI believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
BRIAN ENOWhat matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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