I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
BRIAN ENOSometimes 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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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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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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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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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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