Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
BRIAN ENOWith all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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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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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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You 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.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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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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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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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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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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