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Famous Quotes
Quotes by Brian Eno
- The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
- The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
- 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.
- The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
- The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
- There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
- We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
- When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
- 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 the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
- You can't really imagine music without technology.
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