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Re: Great Quote about Looping by Brian Eno



Contrary to the popular notion, Eno is not God. All artists edit and "censor" their work, including those he mentioned. They might be a little looser...

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Mark Showalter <folkstone57@operamail.com> wrote:

Hello,

To me this is almost on the edge of despair. I don't know of anyone who simply plays what they play & then puts it out on the market as these artists claim to do. Picasso did censor his own output as he is said to have burned some of his work. As far as the two musical artists mentioned I have a hard time believing they simply walked into the studio, had a single go at a track & moved on. They never had a string break or a mouthpiece work loose or go out of adjustment? This is in the same genre as the Mozart claim that he wrote everything right out of his head & never edited his compositions, which is pure myth.
>
> "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 @#$ good." But a humility, which says,
> "I'm not the person to decide."
> Brian Eno


Minden Jot!

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