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Brian Eno

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

-Brian Eno

art

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

-Brian Eno

art

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

-Brian Eno

art

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

art

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

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change

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.

-Brian Eno

change

I take sounds and change them into words.

-Brian Eno

change

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

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computers

Everybody is entertained to death.

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death

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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dreams

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

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experience

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.

-Brian Eno

experience

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

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freedom

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

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future

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

-Brian Eno

future

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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future

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.

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great

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

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history

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

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intelligence

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.

-Brian Eno

knowledge

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

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learning

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

movingon

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

-Brian Eno

music

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

-Brian Eno

music

You can't really imagine music without technology.

-Brian Eno

music

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

-Brian Eno

music

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

-Brian Eno

music

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

-Brian Eno

music

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

-Brian Eno

music

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

-Brian Eno

music

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

-Brian Eno

music

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

-Brian Eno

music

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

-Brian Eno

music

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

-Brian Eno

music

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

-Brian Eno

music

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

-Brian Eno

music

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Brian Eno

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

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.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

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.

I take sounds and change them into words.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Everybody is entertained to death.

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.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

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.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

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.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

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.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

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

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

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