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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Brian Eno

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
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’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
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
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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Accepting Inherited Longer
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
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
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
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
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

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

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