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One Quotes by Brian Eno
- As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
- I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.
- I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
- One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,'…
- One often makes music to supplement one's world.
- One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
- Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
- The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
- The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag!…
- When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about…
- I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I…
- The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
- My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I…
- I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
- I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other…
- One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you…
- One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working…
- I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world…
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