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.
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 prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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American television really is pathetic.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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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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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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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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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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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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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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I 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.
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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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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