You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
BRIAN ENOAll the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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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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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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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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