I often work by avoidance.
BRIAN ENOThe problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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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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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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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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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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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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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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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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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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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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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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