I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.
Everybody is entertained to death. - Brian Eno
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
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason. - Brian Eno
Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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
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, …
Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience. - Brian Eno
Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being. - Brian Eno
All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. - Brian Eno
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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
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…
John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated. - Brian Eno
John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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