Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
BRIAN ENOA part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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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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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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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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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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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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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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