The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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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.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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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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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 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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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 can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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I often work by avoidance.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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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 think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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