I often work by avoidance.
BRIAN ENOThe idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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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.
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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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American television really is pathetic.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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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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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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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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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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