Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
BRIAN ENOThe handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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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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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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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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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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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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 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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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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