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

Brian Eno

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
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
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Down Finger High Low Play
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
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
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
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

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