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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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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to. So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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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 know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.
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I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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