Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
BRIAN ENOHuman development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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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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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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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.
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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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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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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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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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