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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
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I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
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If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
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Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.
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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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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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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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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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Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
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As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
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Genius is individual, scenius is communal.
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Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.
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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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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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One often makes music to supplement one's world.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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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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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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