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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Brian Eno

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.
BRIAN ENO

Function Trouble Views
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
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
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 often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Arrows Niche Target
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Arrows Art Eye Smack
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 wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People

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