"[Nikola Tesla and Leon Theremin] were European gentlemen, very well-mannered, all of the stuff you associate with living in Europe."

-- Paul Laffoley

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“My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.”
“I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.”
“Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament?”
“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
“There are only two conditions where youâ€™re allowed to wake up a woman on a lie-in: itâ€™s snowing or the death of a celebrity.”
“So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization.”
“It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!”
“Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story youâ€™ve been listening to - all the pieces of music youâ€™ve ever heard.”

Source : "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with Davide Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 2, 2011.

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