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.
BRIAN ENOI suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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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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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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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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