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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

Brian Eno

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
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Cds Difference Thinking
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking

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