#rest

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. ↗

— Brian Eno

#manipulating #time #world #you

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. ↗

— Brian Eno

#could #first #got #heard #i

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch. ↗

— Brian Eno

#celebrity #convince #everything #fascinating #flat

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#die #doze #laurels #off #resting

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that. ↗

— Brian Eno

#crap #generally #i #i think #idea

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way. ↗

— Brian Eno

#fit #hitting #interesting #interesting way #me

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. ↗

— Brian Eno

#better #generate #having #interesting #interesting things

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ↗

— Brian Eno

#had #history #intrusions #music #occasional

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me. ↗

— Brian Eno

#drowning #foreground #had #i #idea

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests. ↗

— Kit Bond

#because #build #here #high #high priority