People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
BRIAN ENOWhat 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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I believe in singing.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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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 most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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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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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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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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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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I 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.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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