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A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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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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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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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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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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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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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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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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Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.
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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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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 think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.
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I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
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The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
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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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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 don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Culture is everything you don't have to do.
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