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Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
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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?
Brian Eno
Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.
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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Genius is individual, scenius is communal.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
Brian Eno
One often makes music to supplement one's world.
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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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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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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.
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I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
Brian Eno
You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
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