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"One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them."
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
"Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it."
"Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal."
"The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world]."
"I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death."
"We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech."
"I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams."
"There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right."
"All the words thrown on to others will eventually fall on you, so speak such pure words so that pure words will indeed fall on you."
Explore more quotes by Brian Eno
"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."
"I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind."
"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school."
"My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing."
"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."
"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."
"I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice."
"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."
"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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