I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with … - Brian Eno

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Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Brian Eno

I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.

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The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

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The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

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I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

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