Brian Eno Quotes
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Quotes to Explore
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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It's nice when people approach you to help.
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
