Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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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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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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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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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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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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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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Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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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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