One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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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Think inside the work – outside the work
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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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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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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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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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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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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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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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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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