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

Brian Eno

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
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
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
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
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
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 Done Garde Research
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
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
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
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
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
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

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