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.
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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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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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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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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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’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Law is always better than war.
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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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