American television really is pathetic.
BRIAN ENOThe 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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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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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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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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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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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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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 hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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