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.
BRIAN ENOLook closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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What 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.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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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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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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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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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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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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