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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Brian Eno

Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
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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Accepting Inherited Longer
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

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