Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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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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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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What 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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I’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.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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