Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
BRIAN ENOIt’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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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.
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I often work by avoidance.
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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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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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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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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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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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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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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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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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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