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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Brian Eno

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
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
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
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
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay Thinking
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
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
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
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
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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Arrows Niche Target
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
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
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
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
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person

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