As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
BRIAN ENOOnce 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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I believe in singing.
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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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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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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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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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