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Brian Eno Inspirational Quotes (170)

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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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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
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I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
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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'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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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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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to. So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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I often work by avoidance.
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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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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.
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Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
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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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Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
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