It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
BRIAN ENORobert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
More Brian Eno Quotes
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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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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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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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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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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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Law is always better than war.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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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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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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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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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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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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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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