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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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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
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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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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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When I've finally got the title, I think, Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
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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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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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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 love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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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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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 have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
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I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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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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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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