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Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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You can't really imagine music without technology.
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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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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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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.
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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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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 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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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to 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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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory that's when you do your best work.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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