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I'm very opinionated.

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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The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.
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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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When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
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Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
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I often work by avoidance.
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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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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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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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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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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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You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
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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 have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
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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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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 believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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