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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

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
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
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Fabulous Sound Use
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
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
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
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
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
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

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