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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

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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I believe in singing.
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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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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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Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
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Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
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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 wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
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One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing
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Culture is everything you don't have to do.
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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.
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The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
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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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At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, You gave hope to other balding men. My new epitaph: Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.
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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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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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