The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
BRIAN ENOBut now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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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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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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