4 Quotes by Brian Eno about song

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    Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

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    In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

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    I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.

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    At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.

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