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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

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
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
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
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
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
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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Compose Firsts Heard Ideas Tape
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Believe Confidence Keys Self
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
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
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget

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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