“I take sounds and change them into words.”
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“I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.”
Brian Eno
“It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.”
Brian Eno
“One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.”
Brian Eno
“The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.”
Brian Eno
“At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.”
Brian Eno
“I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.”
Brian Eno
“But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.”
Bryan Ferry
“Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.”
Bryan Ferry
“You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?”
Bryan Ferry
“But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.”
Bryan Ferry
“It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.”
Bryan Ferry
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
Sigmund Freud
“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.”
Sigmund Freud
“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”
Sigmund Freud
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'”
Sigmund Freud
“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”
Sigmund Freud
“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”
Sigmund Freud
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Sigmund Freud
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
Sigmund Freud
“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”
Sigmund Freud
“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.”
Sigmund Freud
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
Sigmund Freud
“The goal of all life is death.”
Sigmund Freud