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Law is always better than war.

Brian Eno

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
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
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
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
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
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
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
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
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
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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Avant Done Garde Research
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
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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Evaluation Feelings Ideas
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
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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Earth Editing Film Sentence
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 thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Play Running Years
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
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

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