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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

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Compose Firsts Heard Ideas Tape
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
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
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force

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