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

Brian Eno

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World
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 most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
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
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
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Mean Moving Play Playing Somebody
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
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks

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