Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
BRIAN ENOAll the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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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.
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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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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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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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American television really is pathetic.
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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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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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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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