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Explore more quotes by Brian Eno

"Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable."
Music

"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."
People

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

"I take sounds and change them into words."
Change

"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."
Music

"A part of me has become immortal, out of my control."
Control

"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."
Idea

"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience."
Experience

"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."
Idea

"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."
Learning
Exlpore more Guitar quotes

"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."
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"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."
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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
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"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
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