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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.

Brian Eno

The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Brother Favorite Game Hobby
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
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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Flirting Ideas Play
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Looks Past Thinking
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
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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Fine Thinking Titles
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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Device Easiest Handbook Predicted Things
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching

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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