Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
BRIAN ENOA part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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 had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Law is always better than war.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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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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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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