Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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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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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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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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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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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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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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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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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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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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