Brian Eno Quotes
My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
Quotes to Explore
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
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It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
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There are three levels of self to consider: the proto, the core, and the autobiographical. The first two are shared with many, many other species, and they are really coming out largely of the brain stem and whatever there is of cortex in those species.
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Charles went towards the table, but he had no lady-like powers of filling four sheets with nothing, and the letter was soon sealed.
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Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
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I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever ‘written’ … it evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
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Soundlessly, shadow with shadow, we wrestled together,Till the grey dawn.
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
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I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.
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Putting myself out there knowing I can be criticized - it's ironic, but to me, that's the most empowering thing.
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The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.
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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
