"I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head."
-Brian Eno
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"I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.“
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