Brian Eno Quotes - Page 13

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• The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.

  Brian Eno

  Moving, Track, Important

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, People, Aspect

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.

  Brian Eno

  Nice, Track, Mexican

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

  Brian Eno

  Sound, Use, Hearing

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Creating, Ideas

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 2, 2009.

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• The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.

  Brian Eno

  Simple, Piano, White

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

  Brian Eno

  Mean, Ego, Risk

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 2, 2009.

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• Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.

  Brian Eno

  Airports, Play, People

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

  Brian Eno

  Writing, Historical, Looks

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?

  Brian Eno

  Player, Credit, Bass

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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