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"Brian Eno has called on people to reassess how they feel about the concepts of &amp;quot;control&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;surrender&amp;quot;. The musician and producer told The Guardian that artists and people should keep both notions in balance. Eno said: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve tended to dignify the controlling end of the spectrum. We have Nobel prizes for that end. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve tended to think of the surrender end as a luxury, a nice thing you add to your life when you&amp;#039;ve done the serious work of getting a job, getting your pension sorted out. I&amp;#039;m saying that&amp;#039;s all wrong. &amp;quot;Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That&amp;#039;s what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;In the last few thousand years, we&amp;#039;ve become incredibly adept technically. We&amp;#039;ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part. &amp;quot;I want to rethink surrender as an active verb. It&amp;#039;s not just you being escapist; it&amp;#039;s an active choice. I&amp;#039;m not saying we&amp;#039;ve got to stop being such controlling beings. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not saying we&amp;#039;ve got to be back-to-the-earth hippies. I&amp;#039;m saying something more complex. I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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