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Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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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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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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
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It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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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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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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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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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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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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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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