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

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Device Easiest Handbook Predicted Things
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
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
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Arrows Art Eye Smack
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
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
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past

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