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• 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.

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• I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

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• 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.

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• I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

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• I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

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• 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.

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• I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

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• In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

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• If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.

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• 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.

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• I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement

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• If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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• 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.

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• My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

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• People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

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• 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.

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• It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

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• 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.

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• Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

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• My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

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Brian Eno (50)

Birth:	15th May, 1948
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Artist, Composer, Musician, Record Producer, Singer

About

Brian Eno was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. He is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. He also introduced the concept of chance music to popular audiences, partially through collaborations with other musicians. Eno has also worked as an influential music and album producer. He produced and performed on three albums by Talking Heads, including Remain in Light, and produced seven albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree.

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