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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

Brian Eno

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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Bugs Ears People
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
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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Black Events Signature White
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying
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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Feelings Thinking World
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

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