"Lyrics are always misleading because they make people……" — Brian Eno
"Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about."
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236 Quotes by Brian Eno
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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…
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the…
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are…
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Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set…
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Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target…
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for…
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Being an artist is a job for life.
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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's…
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More Lyrics Quotes
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one of 698 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
— Sebastian Bach
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I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
— Jello Biafra
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most…
— Bjork
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I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
— Nick Cave
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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
— Tracy Chapman
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics…
— Leonard Cohen
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Where words fail, music speaks.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?'…
— Ian Anderson
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And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.
— Julie Andrews
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"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"
— Michel Legrand
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe…
— Maya Angelou
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