I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
BRIAN ENOI don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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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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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I believe in singing.
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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.
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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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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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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 often work by avoidance.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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Law is always better than war.
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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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