At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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 always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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I often work by avoidance.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Once 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.
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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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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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