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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.
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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
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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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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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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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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 point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
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In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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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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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
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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 think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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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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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
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A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
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