Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
BRIAN ENOYou know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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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 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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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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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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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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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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