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

Brian Eno

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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Criped People See Undo Unless
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
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

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

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