The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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I believe in singing.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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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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American television really is pathetic.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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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 love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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