Brian Eno quotes - page 4

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. (Brian Eno)
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. View quote
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. View quote
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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. View quote
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Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop. View quote
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant. View quote
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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. View quote
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I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens. View quote
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. View quote
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I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being. View quote
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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. (Brian Eno)
I believe in singing. View quote
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. View quote
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There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. View quote
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better. View quote
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I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. View quote
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. View quote
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. View quote
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I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. View quote
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People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. View quote
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Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been. (Brian Eno)
In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America. View quote
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Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer. View quote
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it. View quote
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I'm very opinionated. View quote
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