Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
BRIAN ENOI often work by avoidance.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Everybody is entertained to death.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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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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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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