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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.

Brian Eno

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.
BRIAN ENO

Giving Long Mean
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
BRIAN ENO

Arrows Art Eye Smack
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
BRIAN ENO

Historical Looks Writing
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
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
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Copyright Giving Writing
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
BRIAN ENO

Artist Being One Struggle

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