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In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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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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American television really is pathetic.
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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
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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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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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