I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
BRIAN ENOStop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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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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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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For 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.
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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 most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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