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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Brian Eno

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Giving Long Mean
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
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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Down Finger High Low Play
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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Evolution Simple Theory
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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Creating Ideas Thinking
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
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
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Function Trouble Views
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Detachable Furniture Thinking

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