I often work by avoidance.
BRIAN ENOA part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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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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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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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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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 who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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At 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.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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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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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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