Law is always better than war.
BRIAN ENOLaw is always better than war.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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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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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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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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