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.
BRIAN ENOEverybody is entertained to death.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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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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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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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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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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I believe in singing.
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