486 Quotes by Brian Eno

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    I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's.

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    I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

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    One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

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    You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

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    We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

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    I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

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    I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

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