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The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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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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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
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The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
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I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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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.
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The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
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As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
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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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My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.
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