“Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.”
— Brian Eno
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“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
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“Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.”
— Brian Eno
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“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”
— Brian Eno
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“I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.”
— Brian Eno
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“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
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“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.”
— Brian Eno
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“I take sounds and change them into words.”
— Brian Eno
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“Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.”
— Brian Eno
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“Most game music is based on loops effectively.”
— Brian Eno
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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.”
— Brian Eno
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