Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
BRIAN ENOThe muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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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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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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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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Law is always better than war.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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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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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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