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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Brian Eno

People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Copyright Giving Writing
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Believe Confidence Keys Self
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
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
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet

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