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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Brian Eno

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
But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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Criped People See Undo Unless
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
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Believe Encourage Important School
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
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
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
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

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