But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
BRIAN ENOPut out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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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 hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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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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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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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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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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