British - Musician | May 15, 1948 -
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
Brian Eno
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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I'm very opinionated.
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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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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
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I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
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I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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