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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Brian Eno

It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
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
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

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