I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
BRIAN ENOEverything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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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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When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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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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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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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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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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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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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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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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