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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Borough of Melton
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Brian Peter George Eno
Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno
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I believe in singing.
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One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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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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As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
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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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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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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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Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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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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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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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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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, Who's the bass player? Who did that? Who's the engineer on this?
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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
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One often makes music to supplement one's world.
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Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.
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