Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
BRIAN ENOAt the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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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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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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The 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.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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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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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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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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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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