"The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000……" — Brian Eno
"The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band"
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236 Quotes by Brian Eno
Brian Eno has 236 quotes on this site.
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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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That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other…
— Sebastian Bach
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I…
— Adele
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
— Aaliyah
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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely…
— Adele
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
— Aaliyah
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All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out…
— Jello Biafra
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
— Mary J. Blige
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I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK…
— Bono
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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when…
— Bono
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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
— Christina Aguilera
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work…
— David Bowie
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