Brian Eno: Value

Brian Eno is English musician, composer, record producer and visual artist. Explore interesting quotes on value.

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“My friend Peter Schmidt used to talk about ‘not doing the things that nobody had ever thought of not doing’, which is an inverse process – where you leave out an assumption that everybody has always made and see what happens (e. g. music has to be made of intentionally produced sounds was the assumption that Cage left out). In that version of this process, you discover a value in the absence of something – in fact you discover that the absence of something is the revelation of something else (Buñuel, the film-maker, said, "Every object conceals another"”

Brian Eno

a message that I often relay in the studio when overdubbing starts).
December 15, 1995, p. 178
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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

Brian Eno

June 2, 1995, p. 126
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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

Brian Eno

March 23, 1995, p. 81
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)