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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.

Brian Eno

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
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
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
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
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
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
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
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Guitar Pounds Years
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
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
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
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice

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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