Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
BRIAN ENOThe time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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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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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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I believe in singing.
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I often work by avoidance.
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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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