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Brian Eno
Brian Eno
British Musician
Born: May 15, 1948
Me Music People Think Work You
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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. Brian Eno
Free Jazz Musical Constrained Because Equivalent Just Want Which Your Actually Muscles
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. Brian Eno
Love Music Me Together People Complicated Style Sense Kind Computers Absorb Putting Stuff Like Talents Conceptual Springboard Surprised Just Being Pop Pop Music Games Brick Who Uses Many Playing Peculiar
I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse. Brian Eno
You Collapse Would Able Something Never Make Course Always Want Breathe Breathtaking
Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn't want to do. I'm very grateful to him, actually. Brian Eno
Time Me Strange Grateful Example Important Keys Everything Musically Weird Him Were Impressed Very Want Chord Zappa Technical Challenging Actually Things Awkward
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable. Brian Eno
Music You Inevitable Once Impact Only Shock Afterwards
As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me. Brian Eno
Me Mood Soon Always Sound Hear
Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick. Brian Eno
Time You Every Every Time Settings Collaboration Inspires He Environments Know Bowie Him Unusual How Aural Quick Very Different Create Helps Grow
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. Brian Eno
Time You World Interesting Manipulating
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. Brian Eno
Learning Trouble Background Point Point Of View Had Perform Because How Lot Then View Engineers Whole Function Functional
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. Brian Eno
Good People Try Definite Something Something New New Talent Am Salesman Sell Form Anything Convincing
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that. Brian Eno
Work Personality Stage Live Think Generally Never Idea Been Crap Interested Much Playing Presentation
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years. Brian Eno
Great Thought Backwards Run Able Magic Something Catch Around Years Tape Then Play
If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once. Brian Eno
Good You Once Those Dimensions Respond Instruments Parts Any Movements Different Moving Working Body Different Parts Many Using Watch Player
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect. Brian Eno
You Strange Quality Trees Back Those Echo Echoes Because Effect Off Itchy Forest Very Get Many
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way. Brian Eno
Me Way Melodies Those Out Find Most Fit Very Trying Hitting Interesting Notes Interesting Way Then
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. Brian Eno
Music Words Rich Others Complex Carries Point Exclude Messages Up Itself Very Either Which Certain Whole Serve Set
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon. Brian Eno
Good Building Think Else Something Something Else Soon Merit Sort Doing Off Up Any Quite Just Being Fun Nearly Things Good Fun Start
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. Brian Eno
Knowledge You Better Sometimes Musical About Having Results Generate Knew Surprising Move Places Interesting Little Interesting Things Things
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach. Brian Eno
You Situation Slightly Something Reach Beyond Up Your Set Presents
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. Brian Eno
Music Important Lyrics Say Out Constructed Empirically Very Anything Set
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. Brian Eno
World Differences Philosophical Distances Brothers More Idea Like Just Just One Drag
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. Brian Eno
Band Situation Enough Would Tour Know Well Well Enough Deal How Front Anything Really Reason Play
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. Brian Eno
Music Experience Thought Increasingly Our Musical Background Musical Experience Ourselves Find Composers Write Likely Modern Represent Spaces Which Places
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. Brian Eno
Me Rest Own Background Out My Own Records Had Putting Idea Drowning Singer Foreground Making Interested Started
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. Brian Eno
Country Year Back Seemed Stuck Weight Tale Fairy Fairy Tale Stifled Tradition After England Away
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. Brian Eno
Picture Medium TV See Rather Narrative Than
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