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Brian Eno

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
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
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
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.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Function Trouble Views
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool

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