Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENOStop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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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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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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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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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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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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