I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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More Brian Eno Quotes
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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I believe in singing.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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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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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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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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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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American television really is pathetic.
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