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I always use the same guitar I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
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I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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