I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
BRIAN ENOOne of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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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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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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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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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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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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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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