Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
BRIAN ENOI’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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 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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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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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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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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