When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
BRIAN ENOI often work by avoidance.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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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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Law is always better than war.
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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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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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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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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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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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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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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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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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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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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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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 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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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