Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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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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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their 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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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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