Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
BRIAN ENOI think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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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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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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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 always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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