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

Brian Eno

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
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
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
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
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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Mean Moving Play Playing Somebody
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible

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