486 Quotes by Brian Eno


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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.

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    One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

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    Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

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    I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

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    It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?"

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    The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

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

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