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Robert Fripp: “Instinct puts us in the moment, intellect is slower.” About Eno’s being an intellectual but his instinctive and intuitive choices that impress him.

The medieval cathedral was a resonating musical instrument, think of monks chanting plainsong when voices seem to issue from no point but suffuse the building like perfume. Eno, and others, used the twentieth century recording studio in the same way.

“[W]hen I go into the studio, I look around and see what is there and I think, 'Okay, well, this is now my instrument. This is what I'm going to work with.' Another example would be when you're faced with a guitar that only has five strings. You don't say, 'Oh God, I can't play anything on this.' You say, 'I'll play something that only uses five strings, and I'll make a strength of that.'”