Brian Eno Quotes
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. He will try to take the ball, and I will go past him.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
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Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
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Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.
