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Brian Eno

Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Avant Done Garde Research
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Arrows Art Eye Smack
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Flirting Ideas Play
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
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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