I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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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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Think inside the work – outside the work
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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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Everybody is entertained to death.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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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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I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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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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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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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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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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