As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
BRIAN ENOI occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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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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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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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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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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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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American television really is pathetic.
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