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Quotes from A Year With Swollen Appendices — Brian Eno

born 1948 England

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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable [sic] as it is interesting.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brian Eno (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.