For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
BRIAN ENOThe basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
More Brian Eno Quotes
-
-
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
BRIAN ENO -
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
BRIAN ENO -
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
BRIAN ENO -
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
BRIAN ENO -
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
BRIAN ENO -
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
BRIAN ENO -
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
BRIAN ENO -
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
BRIAN ENO -
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
BRIAN ENO -
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
BRIAN ENO -
American television really is pathetic.
BRIAN ENO -
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
BRIAN ENO -
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
BRIAN ENO -
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.
BRIAN ENO -
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
BRIAN ENO