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 ENOPerhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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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’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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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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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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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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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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