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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

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
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
I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Computer Driven Technology
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
When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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Fine Thinking Titles
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
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
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
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
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality

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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