With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
BRIAN ENOIn my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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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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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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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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