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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
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
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Detachable Furniture Thinking
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
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
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

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