"I describe things in terms of body movements.……" — Brian Eno
"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 good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players."
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236 Quotes by Brian Eno
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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…
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the…
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are…
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Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set…
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Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target…
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for…
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Being an artist is a job for life.
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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's…
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More Bass Quotes
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one of 320 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I…
— Dan Aykroyd
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I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
— Terry Bradshaw
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Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined…
— Geezer Butler
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
— David Byrne
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Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
— Stanley Clarke
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Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.
— Les Claypool
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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since…
— Les Claypool
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus.…
— Ikue Mori
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Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum
— Nicki Minaj
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of…
— Jimmy Webb
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