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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

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
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
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
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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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Guitar Overcoming Trying
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Guitar Pounds Years
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Art Rehearsal World
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable

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

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