Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
BRIAN ENOThink inside the work – outside the work
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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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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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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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’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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I often work by avoidance.
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