It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
BRIAN ENOMy lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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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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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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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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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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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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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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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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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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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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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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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 very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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