Every collaboration helps you grow.
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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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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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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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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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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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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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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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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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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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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