Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
BRIAN ENOAll the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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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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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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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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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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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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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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