Everybody is entertained to death.
BRIAN ENOEverybody is entertained to death.
BRIAN ENOThere 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.
BRIAN ENOThe artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
BRIAN ENOThe basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
BRIAN ENOIt’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
BRIAN ENOI believe in singing.
BRIAN ENOIf I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
BRIAN ENOThe most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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 ENOGiven the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
BRIAN ENOLyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
BRIAN ENOI always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
BRIAN ENOThe 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.
BRIAN ENOI’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
BRIAN ENOAt the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
BRIAN ENOSaying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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