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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 think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
BRIAN ENO

Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
BRIAN ENO

Avant Done Garde Research
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
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
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
BRIAN ENO

Aquariums Essentials Voice
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
BRIAN ENO

Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
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
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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Criped People See Undo Unless
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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Earth Editing Film Sentence
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet

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