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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.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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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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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
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Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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I believe in singing.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
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The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
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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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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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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
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