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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Brian Eno

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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Combination Form Kind Magic
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Chord Cutting Guitar Play
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 artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
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
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
But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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Criped People See Undo Unless
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Fabulous Sound Use
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
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks

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