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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.

Brian Eno

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Function Trouble Views
I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Believe Encourage Important School
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
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
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
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
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
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
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Cds Difference Thinking
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
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
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Believe Confidence Keys Self
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term

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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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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