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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.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
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I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
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When I've finally got the title, I think, Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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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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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
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I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.
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One often makes music to supplement one's world.
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I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory that's when you do your best work.
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