Brian Eno Quotes
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
Quotes to Explore
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'
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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.
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I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
