I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Law is always better than war.
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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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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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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 occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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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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