The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
BRIAN ENOIn terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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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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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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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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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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