Everybody is entertained to death.
BRIAN ENOPerhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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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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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe 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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