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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Brian Eno

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Giving Long Mean
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay Thinking
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Interesting Moving Musical
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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Anything End never Outsider Something Think

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