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Them Quotes by Brian Eno
- I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental…
- Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
- Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music…
- Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them,
- I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.
- The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
- Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.
- Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is…
- I take sounds and change them into words.
- Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they…
- If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
- Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
- I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
- If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
- Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import…
- I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a…
- In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a…
- My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting…
- Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments,…
- People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and…
- If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in…
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