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

Brian Eno

I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
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
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
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
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Hands People Sloppiness
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
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular

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