People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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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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I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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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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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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