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Law is always better than war.

Brian Eno

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
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
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
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
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
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible

Law is always better than war.

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