Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
BRIAN ENOI’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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I often work by avoidance.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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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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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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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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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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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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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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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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