Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
BRIAN ENOAmerican television really is pathetic.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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I believe in singing.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Law is always better than war.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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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.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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