I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
BRIAN ENOA part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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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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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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