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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to. So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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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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