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Brian Eno Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output Picture Quote #1

I think I’ve committed the one really bad English crime, which is I’ve risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I’m claiming that I’m an artist of some kind Picture Quote #1

I’d been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it’s environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this ‘ambient music.’ But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes Picture Quote #1

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn’t want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. ‘Discreet Music’ was like that, and ‘Music for Airports.’ What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out Picture Quote #1

You feel as if you’re not living a full life. Which, of course, is why it’s my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world Picture Quote #1

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can’t afford to own it. So it isn’t really part of their life in the way that music can be Picture Quote #1

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular Picture Quote #1

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them Picture Quote #1

A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist Picture Quote #1

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My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either Picture Quote #1

I have the 77 Million Paintings’ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‘God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!’ And that’s a real thrill Picture Quote #1

I’m an atheist, and the concept of God for me is all part of what I call ‘the last illusion.’ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a God but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don’t yet sense Picture Quote #1

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind Picture Quote #1

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I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others Picture Quote #1

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas Picture Quote #1

My guitar only has five strings ‘cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there Picture Quote #1

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one Picture Quote #1

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Editing is now the easiest thing on Earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output. (Brian Eno Quotes) I think I’ve committed the one really bad English crime, which is I’ve risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I’m claiming that I’m an artist of some kind. (Brian Eno Quotes) I’d been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it’s environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this ‘ambient music.’ But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes. (Brian Eno Quotes) I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn’t want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. ‘Discreet Music’ was like that, and ‘Music for Airports.’ What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out. (Brian Eno Quotes) You feel as if you’re not living a full life. Which, of course, is why it’s my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S (Brian Eno Quotes) I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. (Brian Eno Quotes) I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. (Brian Eno Quotes) The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can’t afford to own it. So it isn’t really part of their life in the way that music can be. (Brian Eno Quotes) The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. (Brian Eno Quotes) People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them. (Brian Eno Quotes) A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist. (Brian Eno Quotes) My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. (Brian Eno Quotes) I have the 77 Million Paintings’ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‘God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!’ And that’s a real thrill. (Brian Eno Quotes) I’m an atheist, and the concept of God for me is all part of what I call ‘the last illusion.’ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a God but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on. (Brian Eno Quotes) 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. (Brian Eno Quotes) Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don’t yet sense. (Brian Eno Quotes) When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. (Brian Eno Quotes) I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others. (Brian Eno Quotes) 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 Quotes) My guitar only has five strings ‘cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. (Brian Eno Quotes) The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. (Brian Eno Quotes) I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it. (Brian Eno Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Editing is now the easiest thing on Earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too (Brian Eno Quotes) 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 (Brian Eno Quotes)

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