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?
BRIAN ENOFor the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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