Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENONot many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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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 wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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I believe in singing.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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