Brian Eno Quotes
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.
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I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins Like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.
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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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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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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I take sounds and change them into words.
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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 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 see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.