I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
BRIAN ENOFor me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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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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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 you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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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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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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