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When I've finally got the title, I think, Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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The computer brings out the worst in some people.
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The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it
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My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.
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Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.
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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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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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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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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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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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