Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
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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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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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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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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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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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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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.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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