Best Brian Eno Proverbs
- I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers… Composer
- I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say,… Better
- I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of… Big
- I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other… Answer
- 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… Able
- If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big… Becomes
- 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… Any
- If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might… Bit
- In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a… Anyone
- 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… Carries
- My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting… Able
- Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like… Endless
- Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition… Always Disappearing
- One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you… Better
- One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working… Apart
- People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few… Assume
- Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I… Been
- 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… Anything Well
- There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the… Any
- We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30%… Background
- When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because… Decided
- I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a… Bass
- I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world… Always Thought
- When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is… Actually Present
- I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me. Few
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