I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
BRIAN ENOAll 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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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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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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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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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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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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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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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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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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