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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 micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
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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 had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?
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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
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One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. Okay, this is what they're up to now this is what they're doing who's working with them?
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A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
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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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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
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People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Culture is everything you don't have to do.
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If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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You can't really imagine music without technology.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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