The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
BRIAN ENOI want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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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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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Law is always better than war.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Sometimes 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.
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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.’
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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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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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