The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
BRIAN ENOI’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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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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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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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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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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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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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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I believe in singing.
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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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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