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

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
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The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
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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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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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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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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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. Okay, this is what they're up to now this is what they're doing who's working with them?
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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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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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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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I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
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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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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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