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.
BRIAN ENOWith all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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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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American television really is pathetic.
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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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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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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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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Law is always better than war.
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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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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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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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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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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 had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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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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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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