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

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to. So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
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If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.
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One often makes music to supplement one's world.
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I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
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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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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
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You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
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In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.
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In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it
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The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
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I always use the same guitar I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
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You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
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