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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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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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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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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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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