Brian Eno Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• Painting, I think it's like jazz.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Jazz, Painting

• I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

  Brian Eno

  Free Jazz, Musical, Want

  "When Brian Eno met Ha-Joon Chang". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2012.

• I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Play, Differences

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. Nove,ber 1, 2010.

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