Brian Eno Quotes

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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

Brian Eno
Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."

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New technologies have the tendency to replace skills with judgement – it's not what you can do that counts, but what you choose to do, and this invites everyone to start crossing boundaries.

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I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins
Like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, forever and ever
Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.

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At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

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What I find we're entering into now is not death of the author but diffusion of the author. Authorship gets spread through more and more people, you don't know who makes something now, where an idea comes from. I call this 'scenious' as opposed to genius. It's the intelligence of a whole situation, a whole network.

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A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

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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.

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The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

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Try to make things that can become better in other people's minds than they were in yours.

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An ambience is defined as an atmosphere, or a surrounding influence: a tint... Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

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

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If you don't call it art, you're likely to get a better result.

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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Brian Eno