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"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

"Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech."

"To actively improve the worldand change your life as well,speak all the good you know,and all the bad refuse to tell."

"He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled."

"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."

"From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself."
Explore more quotes by Brian Eno

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."

"For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards."
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