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.
BRIAN ENOWhen I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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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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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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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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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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