In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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 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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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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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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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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 wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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