It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
BRIAN ENOBeing completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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I’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.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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I often work by avoidance.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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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 want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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