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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Brian Eno

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
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.
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Computer Driven Technology
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 prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Arrows Niche Target
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
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
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
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

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