"Musician" mag interview excerpt
Brian Eno, from "Musician" magazine, September 1985:
"I think of it as compost. If you think of culture as a great big
garden, it has to have its compost as well. And lots of people are doing
things that are ... not dramatic or radical or not even particularly
interesting; they're just digestive processes. It's places where a number
of little things are being combined and tried out. It's like members of a
population. We're all little diferent turns of the same genetic dice. If
think about music in that way, it makes it much easier to accept that there
might be lots of things you might not want to hear again. They happen and
they pass and they become the compost for something else to grow from
[laughs]. Gardening is such a good lesson for all sorts of things"
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