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In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, Who's the bass player? Who did that? Who's the engineer on this?
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If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
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I believe in singing.
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I take sounds and change them into words.
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I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
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It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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 set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
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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 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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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to. So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
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