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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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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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When I've finally got the title, I think, Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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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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I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
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A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it
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I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.
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Culture is everything you don't have to do.
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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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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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