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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
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
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
BRIAN ENO

Music People Thinking
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
BRIAN ENO

Conversation Object Telephone
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
BRIAN ENO

Evolution Simple Theory
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
BRIAN ENO

Facts Okay Thinking
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
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
BRIAN ENO

Artist Being One Struggle
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
BRIAN ENO

Peculiar Process Writing
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
BRIAN ENO

Admirer Conservatism Force
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
BRIAN ENO

People Song Track
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.
BRIAN ENO

Country Gay People Sea Something

So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.

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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.

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