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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Brian Eno

Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
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
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking
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
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone

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