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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

Brian Eno

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
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
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
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 hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Believe Kindness Thinking
Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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Anything End never Outsider Something Think
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written

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