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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Brian Eno

I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
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
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
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.
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Historical Looks Writing
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Fabulous Sound Use
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
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 live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

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