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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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 whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to. So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.
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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, Who's the bass player? Who did that? Who's the engineer on this?
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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