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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.
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