Brian Eno
Brian Eno | movingon
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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Brian Eno | learning
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Brian Eno | knowledge
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.
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Brian Eno | intelligence
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.’
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Brian Eno | history
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Brian Eno | great
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.
Brian Eno | future
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Brian Eno | future
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
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