I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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I often work by avoidance.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Law is always better than war.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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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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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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American television really is pathetic.
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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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