Brian Eno Quotes

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• Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

  Brian Eno

  Giving, Reason, Destination

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• Another way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be three minutes and nineteen seconds long and it's going to have changes here, here and here, and there's going to be a convolution of events here, and there's going to be a very fast rhythm here with a very slow moving part over the top of it." Those are the sort of visual ideas that I can draw out on graph paper. I've done a lot of film music this way.

  Brian Eno

  Moving, Long, Musical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

  Brian Eno

  Interesting, Ambient Music, Ambient

  "Brian Eno: The Ship review - epic eeriness" by Paul Mardles, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2016.

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• Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

  Brian Eno

  Black And White, Signatures, Events

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• Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

  Brian Eno

  Skeletons, Incompetence, Constraints

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• Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Triggers, Art Is

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• Every collaboration helps you grow.

  Brian Eno

  Collaboration, Helping, Grows

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• Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

  Brian Eno

  Photography, Art, Philosophical

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• Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

  Brian Eno

  Enthusiasm

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• Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

  Brian Eno

  Editing, Earth, Film

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• If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

  Brian Eno

  Torture, Ifs

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• Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

  Brian Eno

  Firsts

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• 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 knew better.

  Brian Eno

  Moving, Interesting, Musical

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• 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, and those are very important times.

  Brian Eno

  Feelings, Important, Doing Nothing

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• Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

  Brian Eno

  Sitting, Shelves

  "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with Davide Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 2, 2011.

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• Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

  Brian Eno

  Ideas, Use, Moments

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• Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

  Brian Eno

  Errors, Advice, Honor

  "Hey, what's that sound: Oblique Strategies" by David McNamee, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2009.

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• I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Way, Computer

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• The computer brings out the worst in some people.

  Brian Eno

  People, Computer, Worst

  Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. June 2, 1996.

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• The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

  Brian Eno

  Fighting, Vision, Reason

  "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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• Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

  Brian Eno

  Art, World, Rehearsal

  "A Year With Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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• You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

  Brian Eno

  Eye, Arrows, Target

  "On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno". Interview with Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.

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• The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

  Brian Eno

  Skills, Issues, Judgement

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• John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

  Brian Eno

  Noise, Cages, Appreciated

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• Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

  Brian Eno

  Eye, Arrows, Target

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