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

Brian Eno

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
BRIAN ENO

Giving Long Mean
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
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 happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Development Feelings Human
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World

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