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People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#difficulty #doing #going #gold #gold medal

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being. ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #comfortable #coming #i #i think

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#audiences #be happy #bigger #change #get

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?' ↗

— Brian Eno

#else #front #i #i think #microphone

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. ↗

— Brian Eno

#contemplate #future #global #global warming #i

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i think #music #nice #our music #people

Painting, I think it's like jazz. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i think #jazz #like #painting #think

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. ↗

— Brian Eno

#could #furniture #meant #music #part

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. ↗

— Brian Eno

#believe #better #camp #either #i

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true. ↗

— Enya

#i #my own #need #own #people