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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

Brian Eno

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Computer Driven Technology
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Arrows Art Eye Smack
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Development Feelings Human
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
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
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
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
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Copyright Giving Writing
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
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
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

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