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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Brian Eno

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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Earth Editing Film Sentence
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
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
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing

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