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Brian Eno Inspirational Quotes (170)

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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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I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.
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Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.
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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
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Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results
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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
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You can't really imagine music without technology.
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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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Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
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One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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American television really is pathetic.
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The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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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 whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
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Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
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I believe in singing.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
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Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?
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If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
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Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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