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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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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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I often work by avoidance.
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I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label 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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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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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards I thought that was great for years.
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I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. Okay, this is what they're up to now this is what they're doing who's working with them?
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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
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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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I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.
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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 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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I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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