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Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school
in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist
painting. During his time on the art course at the Institute, he also gained experience in playing and making music through teaching sessions held in the adjacent music school.
He joined the band Roxy Music
as their keyboards and synthesizers player in the early 1970s.
I look at the variety of the world, and of the organisms and so on within it, and instead of saying "well, each one of these is an entirely seperate phenomenon," I say, "each one of these is a product of quite a small number of forces and constraints reconfiguring in different ways." So that basic thought about how the universe is made can run through into how I decide to work on music.
I'm terribly attracted to women with ocular damage.
Well, I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true... what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
Although i'm not too skilled in the matter, taxidermy is terribly good fun.
An important aspect of design is the degree to which the object involves you in its own completion.
On creating the Windows 95 start-up sound for Microsoft:
"Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process."
On David Bowie's Low album: