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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

~Brian Eno

Topics: About Always Because Lyrics Make Misleading Music People Think

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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Because Being Being Lied To Decided Done Eccentric Explained He How Know Lie Lied Me Recognise Should Teach Thought Uncle Wanted Would Young

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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Because Behind Extremely Felt Focal Freedom Like Point Really Role Scenes Spotlight Uncomfortable

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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.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Background Because Engineers Function Functional Had How Learning Lot Perform Point Point Of View Then Trouble View Whole

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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.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Back Because Echo Echoes Effect Forest Get Many Off Quality Strange Those Trees Very You

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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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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 love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

~Brian Eno

Topics: About Because Being Being There Big Brighton Community Enjoy Feeling Francisco Gay Gay Community Life Love People San San Francisco Sea Something I Love

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The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Alone Always Anything Anything Else Because Being Charged Connected Did Earliest Else Get Imagine Just Loved Magic Most Objects Painters Paintings Refer Stood Strength Them Thrilled Were You

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Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Because Build Instruments Interesting Like Player Rapport Relationship Respond Sound Them Which You

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