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Everybody is entertained to death.

Brian Eno

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
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
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Interesting Moving Musical
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
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
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term

Everybody is entertained to death.

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