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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
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I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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