Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
BRIAN ENOThere’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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American television really is pathetic.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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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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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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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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