Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
BRIAN ENOWhen I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I believe in singing.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Law is always better than war.
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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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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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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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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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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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American television really is pathetic.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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