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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

Brian Eno

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
BRIAN ENO

Interesting Manipulate World
The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
BRIAN ENO

Flirting Ideas Play
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
BRIAN ENO

Best Minutes Written
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
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
BRIAN ENO

Creativity Supplement World
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
BRIAN ENO

Admirer Conservatism Force
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
BRIAN ENO

Amplify Details Looks
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.
BRIAN ENO

Guitar Pounds Years
Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
BRIAN ENO

Anything End never Outsider Something Think
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
BRIAN ENO

Ideas Wrestling Yoga
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
BRIAN ENO

Categories Sometimes Term
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
BRIAN ENO

Stars Want
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
BRIAN ENO

Baby Beach Chance

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