I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
BRIAN ENOIt’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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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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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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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.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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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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