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.
BRIAN ENOBecause if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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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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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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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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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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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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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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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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