Great Quote about Looping by Brian Eno

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

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.

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"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


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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