All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
BRIAN ENOThe problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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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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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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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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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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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 who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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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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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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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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