Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
BRIAN ENOAmerican television really is pathetic.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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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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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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