Brian Eno Quotes
For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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I just roll with the punches.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
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There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
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Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.
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We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.
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If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.
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On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
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I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.
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The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.
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The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.
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Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.
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Quo quisque est maior, magis est placabilis irae,et faciles motus mens generosa capit.corpora magnanimo satis est prostrasse leoni,pugna suum finem, cum iacet hostis, habet:at lupus et turpes instant morientibus ursiet quaecumque minor nobilitate fera.maius apud Troiam forti quid habemus Achille?Dardanii lacrimas non tulit ille senis.
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I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.
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Gambling is entertainment... Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use.
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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
