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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.

Brian Eno

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
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
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Ideas Wrestling Yoga
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
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy

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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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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