I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
BRIAN ENOLet’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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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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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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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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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 hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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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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