Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
BRIAN ENOOf 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Editing 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.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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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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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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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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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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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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American television really is pathetic.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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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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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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