Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
BRIAN ENOI had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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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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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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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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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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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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