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What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
I can never predict what's going to happen.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I didn't really want to give up music.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn't expected or predicted by what I supplied. Once phase two begins everything is okay, because then the work starts to dictate its own terms. It starts to get an identity which demands certain future moves. But during the first phase you often find that you come to a full stop.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music