When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
BRIAN ENOWhatever 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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I believe in singing.
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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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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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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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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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