Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
Brian EnoEditing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
Brian EnoHuman development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
Brian EnoSometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.
Brian Eno