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Brian Eno

"My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing."

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"My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing."

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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

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"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."

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"My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."

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"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."

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"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

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"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

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"Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are."

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"I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that."
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"Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable."
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"I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice."
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