Brian Eno Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.”
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“Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.”
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“I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.”
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“The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.”
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“I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.”
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“I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.”
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“Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.”
-- Brian EnoSource : "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.
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“I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.”
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“I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.”
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“I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.”
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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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“Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.”
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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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“Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.”
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“Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult”
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“I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.”
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“So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.”
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“Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.”
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“When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'”
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“I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.”
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“I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.”
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“I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.”
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“The computer brings out the worst in some people.”
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“Everybody is entertained to death.”
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“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”
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“John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.”
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“In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it”
-- Brian Eno
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