The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
BRIAN ENOEditing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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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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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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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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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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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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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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