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.
BRIAN ENOEvery collaboration helps you grow.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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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.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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