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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
"Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself."
Explore more quotes by Brian Eno
"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience."
"My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing."
"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."
"One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better."
"If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once."
"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."
"When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition."
"Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others."
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