#ge

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #echo #echoes #effect #forest

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. ↗

— Brian Eno

#generated #lyrics #peculiar #processes #random

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#ambitious #determined #get #i #knew

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #beat #engage #exist #lyric

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #began #behind #classical #dad

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#action #agenda #course #devious #discussion

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. ↗

— John Entwistle

#already #bass #by the time #guitar #hands

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with. ↗

— John Entwistle

#eight #else #first #follow #hard

My first language is Gaelic. ↗

— Enya

#gaelic #language

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#day #life #mother #next #one day