I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
BRIAN ENOIn my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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