When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
BRIAN ENOAll the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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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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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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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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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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