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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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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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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 prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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