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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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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.
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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.
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
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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.
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The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
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There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.
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At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, You gave hope to other balding men. My new epitaph: Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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