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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

Brian Eno

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
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
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
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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Ambition Art Painting
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Chord Cutting Guitar Play
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
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
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

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