Brian Eno quotes - page 5

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas. (Brian Eno)

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

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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.

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For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

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I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

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I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

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I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

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One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right. (Brian Eno)

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

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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 do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

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I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

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It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

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I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. (Brian Eno)

My shows are not narratives.

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Most game music is based on loops effectively.

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In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

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My friend Peter Schmidt used to talk about ‘not doing the things that nobody had ever thought of not doing', which is an inverse process – where you leave out an assumption that everybody has always made and see what happens (e. g. music has to be made of intentionally produced sounds was the assumption that Cage left out). In that version of this process, you discover a value in the absence of something – in fact you discover that the absence of something is the revelation of something else (Buñuel, the film-maker, said, "Every object conceals another"

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