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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

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
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
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
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
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Guitar Overcoming Trying
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
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
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
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
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose

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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