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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Brian Eno

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.
BRIAN ENO

Hands People Sloppiness
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
BRIAN ENO

Doubt Increase Simultaneous
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
BRIAN ENO

Last might Statistics
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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Agree Enough Terrible
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
BRIAN ENO

Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
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.
BRIAN ENO

Anything End never Outsider Something Think
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
BRIAN ENO

Creativity Supplement World
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.
BRIAN ENO

Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
BRIAN ENO

Best Musician Territory Work
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
BRIAN ENO

Democracy Disappear Easy
Everybody is entertained to death.
BRIAN ENO

Death Entertained Everybody
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
BRIAN ENO

Being Choose Completely Difficult
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
BRIAN ENO

Mediums Narrative Television

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