The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
BRIAN ENOOnce I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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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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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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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.
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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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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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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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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