Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
BRIAN ENOSomething 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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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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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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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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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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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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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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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American television really is pathetic.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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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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