Brian Eno Quotes
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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'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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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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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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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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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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I take sounds and change them into words.
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Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.
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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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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.
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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.