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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 wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
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
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
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
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
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
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
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
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Cds Difference Thinking
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay Thinking
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Detachable Furniture Thinking
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World

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