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It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
My shows are not narratives.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
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I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I love good, loud speakers.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
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I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.
Brian Eno Roxy Music