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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Brian Eno

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
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
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
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
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
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
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality

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