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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
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