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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

Brian Eno

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
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
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Looks Past Thinking
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
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
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Believe Encourage Important School
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World
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

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

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