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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
BRIAN ENO

Mediums Narrative Television
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
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
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
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Brother Favorite Game Hobby
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
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Arrows Niche Target
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
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.
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Cds Difference Thinking
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
BRIAN ENO

Bugs Ears People
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
BRIAN ENO

Bass Credit Engineer Player
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
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
BRIAN ENO

Chord Cutting Guitar Play
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
BRIAN ENO

Last might Statistics
Everybody is entertained to death.
BRIAN ENO

Death Entertained Everybody

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

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