I believe in singing.
BRIAN ENOI prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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 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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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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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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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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