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My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Able Afterwards Again Composing Either Gardener Grow He His Kind Knowing Like More Necessarily Planting Quite Reproduce Seeds Takes Them Where Will Work

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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

~Brian Eno

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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Been Easier Lyrics Made Music Only Technically The Only Thing Thing

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In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

~Brian Eno

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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.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Been Crap Generally Idea Interested Live Much Never Personality Playing Presentation Stage Think Work I Think

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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.

~Brian Eno

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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.

~Brian Eno

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People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

~Brian Eno

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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

~Brian Eno

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I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

~Brian Eno

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: May 15th, 1948

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