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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
Explore more quotes by Brian Eno
"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."
"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school."
"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."
"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."
"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."
"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."
"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."
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