Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
BRIAN ENOMake an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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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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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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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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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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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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