I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
BRIAN ENOAmerican television really is pathetic.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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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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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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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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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’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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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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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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