Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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
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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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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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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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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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