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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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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
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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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It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
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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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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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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.
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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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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Culture is everything you don't have to do.
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It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
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One often makes music to supplement one's world.
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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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If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Genius is individual, scenius is communal.
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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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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've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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