I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
BRIAN ENOI’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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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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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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