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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

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
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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Guitar Pounds Years
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
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
Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
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
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Flirting Ideas Play
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
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
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People

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