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I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

Brian Eno

The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Brother Favorite Game Hobby
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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Earth Editing Film Sentence
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
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
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
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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Bass Credit Engineer Player
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real

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