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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.
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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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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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I'm very opinionated.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards I thought that was great for years.
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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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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
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American television really is pathetic.
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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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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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