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Reluctant Quote by Brian Eno

“I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.” quote by Brian Eno — Download Open image

“I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.”

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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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