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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.

Brian Eno

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
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Function Trouble Views
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
The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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Anything End never Outsider Something Think
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Device Easiest Handbook Predicted Things
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows

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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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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