It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
BRIAN ENOA part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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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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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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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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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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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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