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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

What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
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 wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People Song Track
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
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
BRIAN ENO

Looks Past Thinking
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
BRIAN ENO

Attractive Long Voice
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
BRIAN ENO

Musical Sound Territory
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
BRIAN ENO

Bored Retrospect Thinking
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
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
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 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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