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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Brian Eno

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
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
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
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
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
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way

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