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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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The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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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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I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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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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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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Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
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American television really is pathetic.
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Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
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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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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.
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I've never used a PC in my life I don't like them.
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Culture is everything you don't have to do.
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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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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
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