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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

Brian Eno

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
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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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Believe Confidence Keys Self
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 the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
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
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay Thinking
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

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