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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 -
Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
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?
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.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
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 -
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
One way of working is just bring a group of totally different musicians together and encourage them to stick to their guns, not to do the thing that normally happens in a working situation where everyone homogenizes and concedes certain points - so eventually they're all playing in roughly the same style. I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away. So there would be a kind of space in the middle where I could operate, and attempt to make these things coalesce in some way. In fact quite a lot of my stuff has arisen from that.
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 -
The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.
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
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I'm very opinionated.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
Brian Eno Roxy Music