Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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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.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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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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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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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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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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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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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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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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