It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
BRIAN ENOWe’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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I believe in singing.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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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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American television really is pathetic.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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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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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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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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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 always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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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 don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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