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.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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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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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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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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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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To be honest, I'm really more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of a girl.
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People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
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The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.
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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.
