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The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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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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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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
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