I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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
-
-
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
BRIAN ENO -
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
BRIAN ENO -
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
BRIAN ENO -
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
BRIAN ENO -
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
BRIAN ENO -
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
BRIAN ENO -
We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
BRIAN ENO -
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
BRIAN ENO -
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
BRIAN ENO -
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
BRIAN ENO -
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
BRIAN ENO -
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
BRIAN ENO -
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
BRIAN ENO -
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
BRIAN ENO -
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
BRIAN ENO