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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.

Brian Eno

Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Ideas Wrestling Yoga
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People Song Track
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
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
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
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

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.

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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.

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