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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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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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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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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
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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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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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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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You can't really imagine music without technology.
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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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In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
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I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. Okay, this is what they're up to now this is what they're doing who's working with them?
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One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
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