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.
BRIAN ENOI’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.
BRIAN ENOAll the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
BRIAN ENOI don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
BRIAN ENOYou know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
BRIAN ENOStop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
BRIAN ENOLyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
BRIAN ENOBut now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
BRIAN ENOIt’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
BRIAN ENOThe seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
BRIAN ENOThe artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
BRIAN ENOThere 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.
BRIAN ENOIf something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
BRIAN ENOCulture is everything you don’t have to do.
BRIAN ENOThe basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
BRIAN ENOThink inside the work – outside the work
BRIAN ENOWith all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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