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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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The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.
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The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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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.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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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 knew 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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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.
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Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
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My shows are not narratives.
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The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a pop star you're getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn't rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you're in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn't it?
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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 hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
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 people being there because they enjoy their life there.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I love good, loud speakers.
Brian Eno Roxy Music