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Brian Eno

People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
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
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance

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