If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
BRIAN ENOWhat I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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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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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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