For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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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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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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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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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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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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about 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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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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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 prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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