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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When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
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I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run.
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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.
