It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
BRIAN ENOSometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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