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Convince Quote by Brian Eno

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“I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.”

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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

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You can't really imagine music without technology.

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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being…

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I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you…

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If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving…

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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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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but…

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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But…

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It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of…

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I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can…

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing…

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Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts.

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I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat,…

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