Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENOSet up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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I believe in singing.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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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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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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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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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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