The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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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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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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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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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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