For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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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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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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I believe in singing.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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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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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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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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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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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 problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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