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I take sounds and change them into words.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.
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Culture is everything you don't have to do.
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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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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
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The computer brings out the worst in some people.
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I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
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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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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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Genius is individual, scenius is communal.
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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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Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
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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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One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing
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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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