The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
BRIAN ENOFor instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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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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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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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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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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