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BRIAN ENOThe 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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At 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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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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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.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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