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

Brian Eno

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
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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Country Weight Years
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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Development Feelings Human
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
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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