Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
BRIAN ENOAmerican television really is pathetic.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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 wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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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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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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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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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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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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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want 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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I 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.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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