W]hat makes a work of art โgoodโ for you is not something that is already โinsideโ it, but something that happens inside you.
Brian EnoAvant-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 EnoMy guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
Brian EnoAnother way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be three minutes and nineteen seconds long and it's going to have changes here, here and here, and there's going to be a convolution of events here, and there's going to be a very fast rhythm here with a very slow moving part over the top of it." Those are the sort of visual ideas that I can draw out on graph paper. I've done a lot of film music this way.
Brian Eno