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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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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

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"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

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"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

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"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."
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"I often work by avoidance."
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"I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there."
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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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"For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time."
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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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"As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me."
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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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"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."
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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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