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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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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Genius is individual, scenius is communal.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to. So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
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I've never used a PC in my life I don't like them.
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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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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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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
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I often work by avoidance.
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Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.
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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
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I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory that's when you do your best work.
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I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.
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In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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