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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
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Down Finger High Low Play
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Believe Encourage Important School
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Art Rehearsal World
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool

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