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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Brian Eno

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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Evaluation Feelings Ideas
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
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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Fine Thinking Titles
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
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
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
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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Easy Listening People
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
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
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure

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