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Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Culture is everything you don't have to do.
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The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.
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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'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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I believe in singing.
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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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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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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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There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.
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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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If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.
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A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.
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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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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start
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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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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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