Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
BRIAN ENOThe problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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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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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?
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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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 felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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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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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I believe in singing.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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