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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

Brian Eno

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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Evaluation Feelings Ideas
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Flirting Ideas Play
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
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
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Function Trouble Views
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Device Easiest Handbook Predicted Things
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 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
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

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