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I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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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.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
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The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.
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In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.
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I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.
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You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.
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I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable sic as it is interesting.
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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.'
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
Brian Eno Roxy Music