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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

Brian Eno

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
BRIAN ENO

Detachable Furniture Thinking
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
BRIAN ENO

Giving Long Mean
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
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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Function Trouble Views
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
BRIAN ENO

Fashion Play World
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
BRIAN ENO

Mexican Nice Track

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

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