Brian Eno Quotes
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.
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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'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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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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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 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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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins Like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.
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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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Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.