I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
BRIAN ENOCulture is everything you don’t have to do.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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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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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to 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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American television really is pathetic.
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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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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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