Brian Eno Quotes

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• 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…
• Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
• Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
• As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
• When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who encouraged me, but…
• What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on…
• Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music…
• Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens…
• The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
• Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of…
• Being an artist is a job for life.
• Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.
• More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
• The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
• American television really is pathetic.
• I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
• The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
• My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear…
• I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.
• I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

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