I believe in singing.
BRIAN ENORobert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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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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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 occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Whatever 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.
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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 reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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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 great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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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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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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