Brian Eno
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1,303 appearances
2 recordings
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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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Well, it's very built on things you've written, so but uh I'd be curious to hear how you think about that.
I think when you're working as an artist, you're always world building.
You're creating a world.
It might be a huge world like uh, you know, George Orwell's nineteen eighty-four.
That's a whole world completely thought out.
And when you read that book, you d decide to live in that world for a time, and you decide to experience the feelings of living in a world like that.
Because the wonderful thing about art is that it isn't dangerous.
You can live in that terrible totalitarian world, and then you can shut the book and go and put on uh a Fred again song or whatever else you want to do.
Um I'm always sort of trying to find something that
Suddenly makes me think, Oh
There's a different kind of world.
I've never been in a world like that before.
If we go back to the idea of adults playing
I think that's what we're doing.
Pretending, imagining situations, and then sort of figuring out the mechanics of them by imagining them is the clue to everything that makes humans such a powerful and probably dangerous species.
So even if you thought art was not valuable for anything else at all.
You would have to say that this process of giving our minds a way of imagining futures and virtually living in them, actually, living in them in our imagination, must be a very important thing for human beings.
Yes.
No, you're absolutely right.
And in saying that it helps us use our minds in that way, I'm not saying necessarily for good things.
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