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• When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.

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  Garden, Thinking, People

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

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  Art, Sex, Thinking

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• Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

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  Easier, Made, Things To Do

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• It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

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  Attention, Done, Forget

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• Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

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  Thinking, Space, Calm

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• Culture is everything you don't have to do.

  Brian Eno

  Culture

  Interview with Steven Johnson, howwegettonext.com. December 18, 2015.

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• All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

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  Political, Way, Dimensions

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• The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

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  People, Important, Pieces

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• So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

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  Educational, Believe, Character

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• In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

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  Art, Crash, Planes

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• Frequently, I go straight into the studio and see what's around. I might hire a couple of instruments that I've never used - maybe a particular type of electronic organ or an echo unit. Then I just dabble with sounds until something starts to happen that suggests a texture. The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That's like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Couple, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

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  Adjectives, Populist, Populism

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• The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

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  Computer, Problem, Enough

  "Gossip is Philosophy". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. May 1, 1995.

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• People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

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  Hurt, People, Criticism

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 2, 2009.

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• American television really is pathetic.

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  Television, American Television, Pathetic

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• Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

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  Jobs, Technology, Thinking

  Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. June 2, 1996.

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• One way of working is just bring a group of totally different musicians together and encourage them to stick to their guns, not to do the thing that normally happens in a working situation where everyone homogenizes and concedes certain points - so eventually they're all playing in roughly the same style. I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away. So there would be a kind of space in the middle where I could operate, and attempt to make these things coalesce in some way. In fact quite a lot of my stuff has arisen from that.

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  Gun, Style, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.

  Brian Eno

  Running, Track, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Attention, Want, Way

  "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with David Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 1, 2011.

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• You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

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  Thinking, Together, Sound

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

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  Art, Philosophy, Calling

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• I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.

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  Exercise, People, Interesting

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Everybody is entertained to death.

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  "'Everyone is entertained to death'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2015.

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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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  Believe, Self Confidence, Keys

  "Singing: The Key To A Long Life" by Brian Eno, www.npr.org. November 23, 2008.

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• When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

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  Lying, Self, People

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