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Brian Eno

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
BRIAN ENO

Development Feelings Human
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
BRIAN ENO

Focus People Real
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
BRIAN ENO

Compose Firsts Heard Ideas Tape
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
BRIAN ENO

Ideas Wrestling Yoga
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
BRIAN ENO

Hate Talking
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
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
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
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.
BRIAN ENO

Exercise Interesting People
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENO

Arrows Niche Target

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