Brian Eno Quotes
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People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
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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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The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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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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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 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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