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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

Brian Eno

Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
BRIAN ENO

Culture Everything Happen
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
BRIAN ENO

Democracy Disappear Easy
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
BRIAN ENO

Artist Being One Struggle
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
BRIAN ENO

Criped People See Undo Unless
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
BRIAN ENO

Believe Confidence Keys Self
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
BRIAN ENO

Interesting Moving Musical
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
BRIAN ENO

Bears Hate Rocks
I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
BRIAN ENO

Fine Thinking Titles
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
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
BRIAN ENO

Feelings Thinking World
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
BRIAN ENO

Fashion Play World
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
BRIAN ENO

Life Normal Persons

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

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