British - Musician | May 15, 1948 -
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
Brian Eno
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
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I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
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I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
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I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.
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One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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