A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
BRIAN ENOI love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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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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Law is always better than war.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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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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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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I often work by avoidance.
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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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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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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