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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

Brian Eno

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Guitar Overcoming Trying
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
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Fun People Technology
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Ideas Wrestling Yoga
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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Fine Thinking Titles
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

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