I believe in singing.
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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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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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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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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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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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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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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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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