I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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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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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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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 wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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