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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.

Brian Eno

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Ideas Wrestling Yoga
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
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
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking

We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.

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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.

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