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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

Brian Eno

The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
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
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
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
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
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
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People

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