The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Brian EnoThe great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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 EnoThe basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
Brian EnoYou can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.
Brian Eno