People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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 think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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I believe in singing.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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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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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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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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 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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