Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
BRIAN ENOAmbient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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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 basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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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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Law is always better than war.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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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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