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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Brian Eno

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Arrows Niche Target
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
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
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
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
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
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting

Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

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