British - Musician | May 15, 1948 -
By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.
Brian Eno
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Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.
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If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.
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It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
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Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.
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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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In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
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I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
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You can't really imagine music without technology.
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