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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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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
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I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of 'what else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'
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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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The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
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The computer brings out the worst in some people.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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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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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory that's when you do your best work.
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Repetition doesn't really exist
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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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I believe in singing.
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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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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
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