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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.

Brian Eno

You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Copyright Giving Writing
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Down Finger High Low Play
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
BRIAN ENO

Play Running Years
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
BRIAN ENO

Attention Interesting Listening
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Guitar Overcoming Trying
I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
BRIAN ENO

Computer Driven Technology
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
BRIAN ENO

Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
BRIAN ENO

Admirer Conservatism Force
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
BRIAN ENO

Evaluation Feelings Ideas
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
BRIAN ENO

Believe Kindness Thinking

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