My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
BRIAN ENOTry to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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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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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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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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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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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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