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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 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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