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I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
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When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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As you get older, you get a bit more serious.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
Part of me likes a more ragged, jagged guitar sound or performance, but our work might not have been as innovative had we followed in the footsteps of what came before. We were very proud of what we had hit on.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Culture is everything you don't have to do.
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Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.
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One often makes music to supplement one's world.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The 'take control of things' mode, the 'be careful, watch out' mode, the 'speed' mode - the 'Red Bull' mode, actually. There's nothing wrong with it. It's all part of what we are.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
Brian Eno Roxy Music