I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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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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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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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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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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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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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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