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Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
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I've never used a PC in my life I don't like them.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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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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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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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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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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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
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My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
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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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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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