All Brian Eno Quotes
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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If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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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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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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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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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
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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 enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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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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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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