Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
BRIAN ENOGiven the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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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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Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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I believe in singing.
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When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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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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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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