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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 hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
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
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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Bass Credit Engineer Player
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
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Giving Long Mean
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
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
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
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
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
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
Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track

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