When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
BRIAN ENOAt the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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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
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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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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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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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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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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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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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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