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.
BRIAN ENOSet up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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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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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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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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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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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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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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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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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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