Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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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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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as 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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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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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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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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