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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?

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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I always use the same guitar I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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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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People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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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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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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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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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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