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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."
"Every misfortune is a fortune."
"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular."
"The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform."
"It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people."
Explore more quotes by Brian Eno
"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."
"I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there."
"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."
"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."
"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."
"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."
"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."
"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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