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Brian Eno

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
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
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
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
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
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Guitar Pounds Years
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Cds Difference Thinking
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
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
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice

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