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I often work by avoidance.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
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