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.
BRIAN ENOI want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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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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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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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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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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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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Everybody is entertained to death.
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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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American television really is pathetic.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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