With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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?”
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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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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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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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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.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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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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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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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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