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Brian Eno

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
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
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
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
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
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
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

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