As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
BRIAN ENOOnce 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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When 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.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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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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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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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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