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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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I always use the same guitar I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
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One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing
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Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
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If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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