Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Brian Eno's Popular Quotes

Everybody is entertained to death.

- Brian Eno

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

- Brian Eno

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

- Brian Eno

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

- Brian Eno

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, …

- Brian Eno

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

- Brian Eno

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

- Brian Eno

Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of lit…

- Brian Eno

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

- Brian Eno