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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.

Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Chord Cutting Guitar Play
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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
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
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
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
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Believe Confidence Keys Self
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Giving Long Mean
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Arrows Art Eye Smack
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People

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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