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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing

Brian Eno

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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Ambition Art Painting
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Hands People Sloppiness
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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Bass Credit Engineer Player
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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Anything End never Outsider Something Think
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
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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Avant Done Garde Research
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight

You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing

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