Brian Eno
speaker
1,303 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Brian Eno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It doesn't mean anything to me because I don't know any of those things, and I don't care about them in that case either.
Well, one of the problems that fine art faces is the problem of its of its own irrelevance to most people's lives.
You know, no nobody buys a two million pound or a twenty million pound painting just because they like it.
They they buy it because there's a good chance they'll be able to sell it again at a profit, or it secures them a sort of social status that is um not easily obtainable otherwise.
Um so you have to make it seem very important.
You have to pretend that it isn't just an object of commerce.
It's an attempt to build something up by repackaging it in this kind of crust of usually incomprehensible language.
I think some of the worst writing in the world is writing about art, about fine art.
And
It ought to be much simpler.
One of the reasons you like it is because it doesn't translate into words.
It doesn't turn into sentences.
It hits you in some other place, some other part of your mind.
I don't really know why that works, but I think it's something to do with the sense of a
Of near incoherence of the voice.
It's like somebody trying to say something and it come out pro it's uh it's broken, you know, it doesn't come out clearly and straightforwardly.
So there's a sort of either a reticence or a feeling of the machine doesn't work any longer, the machine that is me speaking isn't quite working.
It's defective in some way.
If you had to name the emotion that that song has, what would you call it?
I mean, for me it's there's something
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