Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
BRIAN ENOWell, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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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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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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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 most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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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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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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I believe in singing.
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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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