"When I started working on ambient music, my……" — Brian Eno
"When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting."
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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 Ambient Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records…
— Bill Laswell
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It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because…
— Erik Larson
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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will…
— Bill Hybels
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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
— Bill Hybels
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COIL would very much like to see the creation of a newsgroup for minimal musics. We enjoy a wide spectrum…
— John Balance
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Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting.…
— Emily Henderson
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Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the…
— Sam Kean
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Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
— Brian Eno
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Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes…
— Don DeLillo
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I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most…
— Cliff Martinez
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
— Andy Summers
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