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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.

Brian Eno

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Avant Done Garde Research
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Guitar Pounds Years
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping

When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.

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