Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
BRIAN ENOQuite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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 problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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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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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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