The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when youโre apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
Brian EnoThe whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Brian EnoWhat happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
Brian EnoYou just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
Brian Eno