It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
BRIAN ENOThe 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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I often work by avoidance.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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