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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

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
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
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
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
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
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
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
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
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
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
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
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
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Brother Favorite Game Hobby
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People Song Track
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work

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