Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.
Brian EnoThe 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.
Brian EnoIt must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
Brian EnoIf you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Brian EnoI've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
Brian EnoWhen you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.
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