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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.

Brian Eno

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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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
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
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
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
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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Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
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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Song Thinking Trying
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music

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