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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

Brian Eno

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
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
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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Fine Thinking Titles
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.
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Evaluation Feelings Ideas
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
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
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

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