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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

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Device Easiest Handbook Predicted Things
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
BRIAN ENO

Albums Commercial Ideas

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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