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Something Quotes by Brian Eno
- My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear…
- 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.
- The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing,…
- If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
- The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
- I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect
- When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
- Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is…
- W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.
- Listening to something is an act of surrender.
- Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
- Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
- I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and…
- If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
- I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
- Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and…
- I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
- I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
- I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of…
- I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it…
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