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One often makes music to supplement one's world. ↗

— Brian Eno

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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ↗

— John Locke

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The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

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The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation. ↗

— Brian Eno

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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

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Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback. ↗

— Kate Fox

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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

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