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Brian Eno

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
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
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
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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Musical Sound Territory
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Fun People Technology

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