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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.

Brian Eno

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Art Rehearsal World
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
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
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
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
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 don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular

What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.

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