I call it “stolen time”—there’s nothing more valuable than stolen time. It happens to me sometimes when I’ve set up a meeting at my studio at a certain time and it gets cancelled on short notice. When it happens, I’m like a giddy child. I think, “Wow, I’ve stolen half an hour. It’s so exciting—I can do whatever I want!”
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Brian Eno
Composer, record producer and visual artist
United Kingdom · b. 1948
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English composer and producer, a founding member of Roxy Music and originator of the term ambient music. He produced records for David Bowie, Talking Heads and U2, and works in generative music and installation art.
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I like to break up days and structure them. You have breakfast, work for two hours on a project, check your emails, work on another project for another two hours and then lunch. Your day has to be a measurable process, in order to minimize aimless drifting. Of course, you can have some days on automatic pilot, and there’s nothing wrong with drifting in and of itself. But you can’t do that every day—you’ll never get anywhere.
My favorite method is stopping everything for a moment. It’s amazing how difficult I find it these days to simply sit quietly.
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