If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
BRIAN ENOWhen people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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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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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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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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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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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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