Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
BRIAN ENONot many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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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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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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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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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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