486 Quotes by Brian Eno

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    I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

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    I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

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    You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

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    The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

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    The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

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    The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.

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