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People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Call Dismiss Easy Hard Listen Listening Music People Should Suggest

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I believe in singing.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Believe Singing I Believe I Believe In

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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

~Brian Eno

Topics: About Because Become Being Community Consciousness Empathy Feelings Great Group How Learn Lies Little Little While Me People Self Sing Singing Social Stop Us Virtue Way While You Yourself

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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Become Commonplace Earth Easiest Easiest Thing Editing Evolved Films Get Music Now Oh Out Processing Put Rid Sentence Thing Things Too Word

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I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

~Brian Eno

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For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Always Before Combination Established Fairly Fascinated Form Given Hit Instance Kind Known Magic Music Nobody Popular Popular Music See Some Whether

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I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Artists Audiences Be Happy Bigger Change Get Going Happy Mean Most Necessarily Order Rather Smaller Than Think Work Would I Think

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Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Also Band Been Else Every Feel Gone Nobody Nobody Else Sense Somewhere Want Wants Worked

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It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Because Bother Carry Know Many Must Mysterious People Quite Records Sell Some Some People Why You

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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Lot Make Music Never Pieces Release Cds

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: May 15th, 1948

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