The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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 hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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American television really is pathetic.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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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.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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