It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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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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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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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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 wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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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 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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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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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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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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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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