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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Brian Eno

The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
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
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
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
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Brother Favorite Game Hobby
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
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use

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