British - Musician | May 15, 1948 -
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
Brian Eno
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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
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When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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