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.
BRIAN ENOTry to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Law is always better than war.
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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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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I often work by avoidance.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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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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