Brian Eno

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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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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
Law is always better than war.
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
You can't really imagine music without technology.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

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