The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
BRIAN ENOI still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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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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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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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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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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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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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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