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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% of our musical experience.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Think inside the work - outside the work.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't notate the sound of "St. Elmo's Fire." There's no way of writing that down. That's because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited. If you said violins and woodwind that defined the sound texture; if I say synthesizer and guitar it means nothing - you're talking about 28,000 variables.
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Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
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 which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
Brian Eno Roxy Music