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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.

Brian Eno

People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Arrows Art Eye Smack
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
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 texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
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
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
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

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