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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
BRIAN ENO

Life Normal Persons
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
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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Country Gay People Sea Something
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
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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Arrows Art Eye Smack
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening
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
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.
BRIAN ENO

Criped People See Undo Unless
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet

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