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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

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
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
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
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
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
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Compose Firsts Heard Ideas Tape
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
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work

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

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