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Brian Eno

(1948) Conceptual Artist United Kingdom

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Brian Eno is a conceptual artist from the United Kingdom, best known for Brian Eno.

Quick Facts About Brian Eno

Born: May 15, 1948
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Conceptual Artist
Notable works: Brian Eno
Known for: Another Green World

About Brian Eno

Brian Eno is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, sound designer, author and political activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped introduce unconventional concepts and approaches to contemporary music. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures. In 2019, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Frankfurter Musikpreis Royal Designer for Industry

Quotes by Brian Eno · Page 15

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with…

Able

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

Agressive

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American television really is pathetic.

Pathetic

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Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

Bowie

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I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing.…

Headphones

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I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Feelings

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I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who…

Dispassionate

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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way…

Language

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You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

Arrows

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The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

Agree

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Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires…

Bowie

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I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am,…

Abnormal

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“You talk to me as if from a distance And I reply with impressions chosen from another time.”

Another time

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I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never…

Able

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I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

Cant

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The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there…

Each

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I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with…

Answers

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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

Art

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I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm…

Adventure

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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

Bother

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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then…

Different

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The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

Becoming

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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community,…

Being there

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