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

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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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Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.
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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.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
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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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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.
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You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
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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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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
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I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
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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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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
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