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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

Brian Eno

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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Evaluation Feelings Ideas
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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Hate Land Song
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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Feelings Interesting World
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
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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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
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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Albums Commercial Ideas

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

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