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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
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Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results
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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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I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.
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I've never used a PC in my life I don't like them.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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