In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
BRIAN ENOIf I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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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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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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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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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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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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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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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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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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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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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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