“I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.” KnowsDoneWholeBigsWantedProcessEnjoyWaterKnow HowInternetInvolvedMusic IsDetailsLabelsBottles Author:Brian Eno
“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.” ImportantWholeMovingRecordsPiecesExampleTrackRelateTitlesCompositionSelectionMacro Author:Brian Eno
“I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.” PeopleIfsLittlesSaidWholeUseTodayBitsInterestingImpossibleGroupsMinutesExerciseLittle BitMusicianStudiosBrokeSessionRestrictionNameless Author:Brian Eno
“In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.” ThinkingHas BeensWholeShowsCoursesTermInterestingWonderfulHappeningsInstrumentsSeriesSpeedMusclesShow MeReally InterestingCdsDjsPadsTurntables Author:Brian Eno
“Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.” KnowsWellsStillsImportantWholeFactsBodyHandsStuffPlayerExampleMusicianMusic IsHappeningsSittingTraditionalAssumptionMusclesLiteracyTransfers Author:Brian Eno
“The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.” TryingWholeMightTurnsSoundProduceOvercomingResponsibleInstrumentsGuitarLimitationRangeDesignerStringsEngineersElectricHendrixElectric GuitarAmplifiers Author:Brian Eno
“The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.” PeopleKnowsFeelsArtImportantRealWholeFilmDifferencesHurtWalksEmotionalConcernedExtremesCinemaBeing Hurt Author:Brian Eno
“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.” WholeViewsTroubleFunctionPoint Of ViewBackgroundsEngineers Author:Brian Eno
“I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.” WholeDreamNightSongLuckPhrasesNight Vision Author:Brian Eno
“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.” FirstsPersonsWholePopsOccasionalPop MusicFirst PersonIntrusion Author:Brian Eno
“Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.” ThinkingWellsWholeJobsValuesTechnologyTransparentNew TechnologyImports Author:Brian Eno
“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.” IfsBelieveWholeBigsProcessForgetIntellectualOver YouNever ForgetHurdleThought Process Author:Brian Eno
“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.” WholeCertainRichMessagesComplexesCarrie Author:Brian Eno
