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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

Brian Eno

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
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
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 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
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
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
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich

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