The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
BRIAN ENOThe thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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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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Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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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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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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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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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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