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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.

Brian Eno

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Looks Past Thinking
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
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
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
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
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
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.

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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.

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