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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

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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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A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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