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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Brian Eno

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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Earth Editing Film Sentence
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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Bass Credit Engineer Player
Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
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
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

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