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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Brian Eno

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
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
I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Believe Encourage Important School
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
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
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things

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