So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
BRIAN ENOI 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.’
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I often work by avoidance.
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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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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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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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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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