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Brian Eno

Brian Eno

British Musician

Born: May 15, 1948

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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. Brian Eno

Music You Once Kind Would Record Finish Put Like Ideas Making Endless Which While Working Flirting Play Started

Most game music is based on loops effectively. Brian Eno

Music Game Most Loops Effectively Game Music Based

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. Brian Eno

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs. Brian Eno

Music Release Never Pieces Make Lot

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. Brian Eno

Music House Hip-Hop Ambient Huge England Europe Techno

The computer brings out the worst in some people. Brian Eno

People Some People Worst Out Some Computer Brings

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work. Brian Eno

Work Me Past Focused Were Impressed Artists Really Who

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. Brian Eno

Art Good World Smart Never Idea Another Art World Thing Good Idea

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch. Brian Eno

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music. Brian Eno

Love Music Listening Kids Muslim Were American American Kids

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear. Brian Eno

Democracy Easy Disappear Very Actually

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. Brian Eno

Religion You Thought Picture Big Believe Thought Process Hurdle Strongly Insists Through Never Part Never Forget Over Becomes Intellectual Jump Very Forget Quite Decide Process Then Your Whole

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop. Brian Eno

Strong Feedback Totally Loop Very Pop

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. Brian Eno

Music First Sense Composers Could Idea Like Make Got Terry Heard Tape Itself Mid Interested Really Started Playing

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. Brian Eno

Work Music Musical Define Well Edges Territory Context Sounds Any Much Certain Spatial Function Found Nearly

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens. Brian Eno

Control Out Abandoning Finding Involve Up Situations Happens Set

My shows are not narratives. Brian Eno

Narratives Shows

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?' Brian Eno

You Think Other Else Voice Pursuits Over Sing Answer Years Question Than Trying Microphone Front Stand

Painting, I think it's like jazz. Brian Eno

Jazz Painting Think Like

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked. Brian Eno

Myth Stupid Think Other Constantly American Any Public American Public Need

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking. Brian Eno

Bloody Awful

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