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I enjoy everyone's thoughts on this. I happen to love Eno's work and can appreciate what he's saying. I found it to be more about a humble confidence in one's work/abilities insofar as one can play/compose/record and be done without too much looking back. For me personally, I find my literary endeavors have a much greater degree of self censorship and/or editing. I will return to pieces written 25 years ago, thinking then they were perfect, and edit the hell out of them and THEN think they are perfect. Maybe I'll be re-visiting them again at 70 for another go around. J.D. > Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:50:48 -0700 > From: looppool@cruzio.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: Great Quote about Looping by Brian Eno > > Derek Sivers who used to own CD Baby put up a wonderful > site of quotations about music and art. > > http://musicthoughts.com/cat/1 > > Amongst many others, I love this quote from Brian Eno. > It encapsulates so much of why I love looped music and music that > contains repetition. > > ************************************************************************ > > "Repetition doesn't really exist. > > As far as your mind is concerned, nothing happens the same twice, even > if in every technical sense, the thing is identical. Your perception is > constantly shifting. It doesn't stay in one place;" > Brian Eno > > > ************************************************************************* > and, while we are at it, I think this one is particularly true about > self censorship in the creative process. > Because of my own insecurity and self censorship, I have to remind > myself of this one all the time......... > .......just like I have to constantly remind myself to play simply. > > > "Artists who don't censor their own work: Picasso, Miles Davis, Prince. > They're all people who just put it out, and have almost no critical > self-censorship. They say, "Let the market decide; let the world > decide." You might not be the best person to judge it. > > That's a kind of humility, actually: it's a mixture of arrogance, which > says, "I know I'm fucking good." But a humility, which says, "I'm not > the person to decide." > > Brian Eno > |