Brian Eno Quotes
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
Quotes to Explore
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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I never fit in with straight country. I never really fit in with rock n' roll. I've always been somewhere in between all this stuff.
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While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.
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I will miss the association with the players and coaches. It has been a great ride.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
