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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

Brian Eno

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World
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
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
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.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
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
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget

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