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Brian Eno

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I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.


— Brian Eno


#anything #enough #far #future #i

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


— Brian Eno


#bother #fabulous #find #had #i

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.


— Brian Eno


#commercial #complete #flop #i #i tried

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.


— Brian Eno


#certain #certainly #cultivate #grow #grow up

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


#body #different #different parts #dimensions #good

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


#because #echo #echoes #effect #forest

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.


— Brian Eno


#developing #exactly #feel #forever #get

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


— Brian Eno


#called #england #europe #hip-hop #house

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.


— Brian Eno


#life #normal #normal life #person #very

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


— Brian Eno


#format #get #getting #longer #much






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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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