Brian Eno Quotes
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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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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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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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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The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.