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No great thing is created suddenly. ↗

— Epictetus

#great #great thing #suddenly #thing

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. ↗

— Brian Eno

#easier #haven #lyrics #made #music

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon. ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #building #doing #else #fun

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer. ↗

— Brian Eno

#any #becomes #even #grown #inherited

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better. ↗

— Brian Eno

#better #generate #having #interesting #interesting things

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words. ↗

— Brian Eno

#been #case #few #i #i can

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually. ↗

— Brian Eno

#actually #best #comfort #comfort zone #people

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#almost #am #build #capable #future

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #bear #blossom #bunch #created

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

— Brian Eno

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