I believe in singing.
BRIAN ENOIt’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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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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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Think inside the work – outside the 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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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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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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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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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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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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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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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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