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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 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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The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
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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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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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Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.
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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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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
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In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
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One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing
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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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The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
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You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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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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