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There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#bag #changed #chip #chips #coming

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #engineers #function #functional #had

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school. ↗

— Brian Eno

#art school #before #got #had #i

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#done #glad #listen #music #necessarily

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year. ↗

— Mel Torme

#i #last #last year #made #money

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. ↗

— Brian Eno

#dangerous #erupt #evaluation #feelings #grow

The dead governs the living. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#governs #living

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there. ↗

— Brian Eno

#creates #discovered #electronic #i #new

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones. ↗

— Brian Eno

#bother #fabulous #find #had #i

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property. ↗