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

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Compose Firsts Heard Ideas Tape
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
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
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
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
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work

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