Most game music is based on loops effectively.
BRIAN ENOHuman 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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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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I often work by avoidance.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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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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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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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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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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