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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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.
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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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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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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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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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There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
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