Brian Eno
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
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And my...
kind of feeling about that is that if you can invent a world that you prefer to live in, which is sort of what those artists were doing, then why not stay in it?
You know, if the
got lots of sharp corners, and you can make this world where suddenly you're sort of in control of it.
You've decided the terms of that world.
And I think a lot of what's happening when artists are working is that they're trying to make the world they would prefer to be in.
Now, that sometimes gets dismissed as escapism.
But I don't think it is.
And anyway, I don't think there's anything wrong with escapism.
It's sometimes a really good idea to escape and to get out of things and think about them from a distance rather than from being in the center of them.
But this is another of the misconceptions about art, that it ought to be difficult to do.
And I think there are many people who I would call artists who never experience any difficulty with what they're doing.
It's just what they do.
People who make beautiful cakes, for example.
One of my daughters loves doing marzipan decorations on cakes, and they're beautiful, the things she makes.
But I'm sure she wouldn't call that being an artist, but I can't see what the difference is.
You know, why is that not being an artist?
So that's one of the other art world things that in order to make it valuable, to justify the high prices, we've got to think of some way of kind of making it seem abnormal, making it seem like something that only abnormal humans can do.
At best, what I'm doing is thinking, I often start something by thinking, I wish there was a piece of music like this, whatever this means in my mind.
For instance, one of my best known records is Music for Airports.
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