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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Brian Eno

Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
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 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
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
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
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
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
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

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