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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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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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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
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The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
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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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Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of 'what else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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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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If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
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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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