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Brian Eno

Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Detachable Furniture Thinking
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
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
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

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