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The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.
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I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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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 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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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.
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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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I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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American television really is pathetic.
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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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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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