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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

Brian Eno

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.
BRIAN ENO

Fun People Technology
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Development Feelings Human
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
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.
BRIAN ENO

Country Weight Years
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
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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Cds Difference Thinking
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
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
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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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
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.
BRIAN ENO

Chord Cutting Guitar Play
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENO

Arrows Niche Target

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