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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

There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
BRIAN ENO

Giving Long Mean
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
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Hands People Sloppiness
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
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
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
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
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
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
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

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