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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

Brian Eno

I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
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
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
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
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
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
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography

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