Brian Eno Quotes
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'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.'
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.
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If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
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The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
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Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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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.
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Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.