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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

Brian Eno

The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight
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 always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Guitar Pounds Years
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
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
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
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
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
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

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

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