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Brian Eno Inspirational Quotes (170)

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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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The computer brings out the worst in some people.
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I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
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A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
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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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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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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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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
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Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.
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