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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

Brian Eno

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Function Trouble Views
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
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
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
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
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play

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