The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
BRIAN ENOOf course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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 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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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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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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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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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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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 do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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