All Brian Eno Quotes
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
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It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
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People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
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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.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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.
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I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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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.
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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
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I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
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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.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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