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Brian Eno

"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."

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"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."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect."
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"I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything."
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"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
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"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."
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"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."
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"I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper."
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"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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"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."
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"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
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