I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
BRIAN ENOThe time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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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.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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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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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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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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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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