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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
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
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Believe Encourage Important School
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
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
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
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
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
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
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight
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
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.
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Country Gay People Sea Something

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