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Brian Eno

I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
BRIAN ENO

Facts Okay Thinking
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
BRIAN ENO

Grow Up Ideas Strong
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
BRIAN ENO

Creativity Supplement World
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
BRIAN ENO

Bad People Qualities Quality
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
BRIAN ENO

Best Minutes Written
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
BRIAN ENO

Away Pulled Quite Wanted
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
BRIAN ENO

Mediums Narrative Television
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
BRIAN ENO

Bears Hate Rocks
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.
BRIAN ENO

Brother Distance Philosophical
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
BRIAN ENO

Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
BRIAN ENO

Fun People Technology
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
BRIAN ENO

Last might Statistics
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
BRIAN ENO

Combination Form Kind Magic
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
BRIAN ENO

Hate Land Song
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
BRIAN ENO

Easily Forgotten Important
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
BRIAN ENO

Interesting Manipulate World

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