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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
BRIAN ENO

Art Philosophical Photography
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
BRIAN ENO

Life Normal Persons
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
BRIAN ENO

Hate Talking
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.
BRIAN ENO

Art Rehearsal World
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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Arrows Niche Target
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
BRIAN ENO

Hate Land Song
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
BRIAN ENO

Easier Made Technically Things
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
BRIAN ENO

Art Calling Philosophy
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
BRIAN ENO

Country Weight Years
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
BRIAN ENO

Much Shelves Sitting
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
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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Decision Hands Ideas
Everybody is entertained to death.
BRIAN ENO

Death Entertained Everybody

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