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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’

Brian Eno

The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
BRIAN ENO

Band Enough Play
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Down Finger High Low Play
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
BRIAN ENO

Interesting Running Track
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
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.
BRIAN ENO

Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
BRIAN ENO

Agree Enough Terrible
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
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
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
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.
BRIAN ENO

Creating Ideas Thinking
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
BRIAN ENO

Much Shelves Sitting

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’

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