People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music." But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.
Brian EnoCultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
Brian EnoAlso something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
Brian EnoIf you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
Brian EnoSince I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results
Brian Eno