Brian Eno Quotes
Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.
Quotes to Explore
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
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We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
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If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
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The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
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I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.
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People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
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I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.
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Time travel is a wonderful thing, isn't it?
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Mr. Philippe Zdar is a little bit like the uncle of the whole Daft Punk-Phoenix-Air thing in Paris and known for being in the group Cassius. It was interesting working with Philippe.
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I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.
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Fay: What will you do when you're old?Hal: I shall die.Fay: I see you're determined to run the gamut of all experience.
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What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as though I were the only one able to hear the sounds or words that other's can't, and deaf to the words that they hear. As if I'm outside the frame, on the other side of a huge, invisible window.
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The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
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Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.
