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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

Brian Eno

It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
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
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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Arrows Art Eye Smack
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
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
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
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
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Fun People Technology
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking

We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

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