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Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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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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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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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
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Genius is individual, scenius is communal.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
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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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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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Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
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