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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Brian Eno

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
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
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
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
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
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Development Feelings Human
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Hands People Sloppiness
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
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
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
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste

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