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Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
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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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I'm very opinionated.
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Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
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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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If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.
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When I've finally got the title, I think, Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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I always use the same guitar I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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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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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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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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It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
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