For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
BRIAN ENOMy lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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I believe in singing.
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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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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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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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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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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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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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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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