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

Brian Eno

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
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Avant Done Garde Research
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
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
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
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
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Interesting Moving Musical
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Fabulous Sound Use
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying

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