Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
BRIAN ENOIt’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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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.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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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.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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