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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Brian Eno

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
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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Identity InterAction Notable
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
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.
BRIAN ENO

Believe Confidence Keys Self
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
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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Art Rehearsal World
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
BRIAN ENO

Doing Firsts Nobody

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