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Brian Eno

"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."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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Amber Hurdle

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

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"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."
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"My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing."
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"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."
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"Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."
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"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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"Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon."
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