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Brian Eno

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
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.
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Fine Thinking Titles
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way

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