With devices my technique is always to hide the handbook in the drawer until I've played with it for a while. The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it's a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren't predicted in the handbook, or that they didn't consider desirable. It's normally those other things that interest me.
Brian EnoThe great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
Brian EnoMusicians 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.
Brian EnoIf there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.
Brian Eno