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I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
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I take sounds and change them into words.
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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
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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 want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.
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I'm very opinionated.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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