Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
BRIAN ENOAvant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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