Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
BRIAN ENOI want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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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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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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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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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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