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Brian Eno

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
BRIAN ENO

Compose Firsts Heard Ideas Tape
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
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
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
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
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
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
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
Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well

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