Brian Eno Quotes

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Brian Eno

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 15, 1948

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Brian Eno

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Brian Eno

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

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People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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I often work by avoidance.

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Most game music is based on loops effectively.

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Everybody is entertained to death.

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I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

Brian Eno

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Brian Eno

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Brian Eno

I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on.

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Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Brian Eno

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. 'Discreet Music' was like that, and 'Music for Airports.' What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

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As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

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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 get things out of my mind.

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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

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I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

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