Law is always better than war.
BRIAN ENOIt’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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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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Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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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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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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