black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Brian Eno

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
BRIAN ENO

Conversation Object Telephone
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
BRIAN ENO

Detachable Furniture Thinking
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
BRIAN ENO

Accepting Inherited Longer
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
BRIAN ENO

Mediums Narrative Television
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
BRIAN ENO

Albums Commercial Ideas
I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
BRIAN ENO

Believe Encourage Important School
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
BRIAN ENO

Last might Statistics
Think inside the work – outside the work
BRIAN ENO

Inside Thinking Work
The 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.
BRIAN ENO

Guitar Overcoming Trying
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.
BRIAN ENO

Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
I believe in singing.
BRIAN ENO

Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
BRIAN ENO

Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
I often work by avoidance.
BRIAN ENO

Avoidance Often Work
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
BRIAN ENO

Bad People Qualities Quality
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
BRIAN ENO

Admirer Conservatism Force
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.
BRIAN ENO

Departments Graphical People Pleased

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brian Eno Quotes