Quote by Brian Eno
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Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. – Brian Eno

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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. – Brian Eno

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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

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People do dismiss ambient music, dont they? They call it easy listening, as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. – Brian Eno

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