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Brian Eno

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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.


— Brian Eno


#anything #good #popular #populist #rarely

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.


— Brian Eno


#manipulating #time #world #you

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.


— Brian Eno


#celebrity #evolve #formed #how #i

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.


— Brian Eno


#i #like #listen #much #music

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


#because #constrained #equivalent #free #i

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.


— Brian Eno


#comes #complex #complicated #enjoy #equipment

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.


— Brian Eno


#behind #extremely #felt #focal #focal point

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


#could #first #got #heard #i

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.


— Brian Eno


#hate #i #music #talking #tell

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.


— Brian Eno


#hear #i #me #mood #soon






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This enabled sound recorded on the first deck to be played back by the second deck at a time delay that varied with the distance between the two decks and the speed of the tape (typically a few seconds). These tapes had previously been used as backgrounds in some of his collaborations with Fripp most notably on Evening Star. Eno has also worked on records by James Laurie Anderson Coldplay Depeche Mode Paul Simon Grace Jones and Slowdive among others.

It has also been extremely influential pioneering ambient and generative music innovating production techniques and emphasising "theory over practice". Brian Peter George St. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music.

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