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Brian Eno

I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Believe Encourage Important School
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People Song Track
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Believe Kindness Thinking
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 wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People
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
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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Brother Distance Philosophical
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
What 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.
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Dream Feelings Together
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
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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Human Self Smart Thinking
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation

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