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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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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One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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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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Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
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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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In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
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I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
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The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.
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I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
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The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
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A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start
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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
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