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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 belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
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
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
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Believe Kindness Thinking
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
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

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