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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Brian Eno

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Art Rehearsal World
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Play Running Years
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

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