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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

Brian Eno

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
BRIAN ENO

Nice People Thinking
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.
BRIAN ENO

Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight
Every collaboration helps you grow.
BRIAN ENO

Collaboration Grows Helping
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.
BRIAN ENO

Interesting Running Track
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
BRIAN ENO

Music People Thinking
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
BRIAN ENO

People Stars Suits
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
BRIAN ENO

Paper Song Structure
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
BRIAN ENO

Arrows Art Eye Smack
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
BRIAN ENO

Fabulous Sound Use
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.
BRIAN ENO

Cds Difference Thinking
Law is always better than war.
BRIAN ENO

Always Better Law War
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
BRIAN ENO

Art Calling Philosophy
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
BRIAN ENO

Mind People Trying
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.
BRIAN ENO

Art Imagine Interesting Lying
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.
BRIAN ENO

Anything End never Outsider Something Think
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
BRIAN ENO

Doing Firsts Nobody

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

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