A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
BRIAN ENOI want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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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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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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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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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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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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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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