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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

Brian Eno

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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People Song Track
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
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
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music 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

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

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