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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
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
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
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
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
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Interesting Moving Musical
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
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
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk

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