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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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I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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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 have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
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It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
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I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
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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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It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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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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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
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