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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Brian Eno

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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Fine Thinking Titles
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things

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