It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
BRIAN ENOWhat happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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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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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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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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