Brian Eno Quotes
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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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Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
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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'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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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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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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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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People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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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Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.