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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

Brian Eno

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
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 think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
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
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening
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
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past

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