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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

Brian Eno

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
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
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.
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Compose Firsts Heard Ideas Tape
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Avant Done Garde Research
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
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
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
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
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
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things

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