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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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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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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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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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Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.
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A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results
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