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Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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 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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When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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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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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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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.
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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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I believe in singing.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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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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The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
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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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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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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?
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