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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.

Brian Eno

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 artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
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
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Development Feelings Human
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture

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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