Brian Eno Quotes
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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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.
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I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
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When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.
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I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.
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If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.
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Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.
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I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
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Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.
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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.
