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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
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I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
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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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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
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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 there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.
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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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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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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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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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In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it
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Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.
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At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, You gave hope to other balding men. My new epitaph: Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.
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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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You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
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I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
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