At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
BRIAN ENOOne of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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I often work by avoidance.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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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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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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