It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
BRIAN ENOI despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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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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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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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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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Law is always better than war.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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