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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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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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Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.
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You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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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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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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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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I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
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I believe in singing.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.
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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.
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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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The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.
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I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
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When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
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I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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