But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
BRIAN ENOAdmirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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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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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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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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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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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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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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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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