I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
BRIAN ENOThe most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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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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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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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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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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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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