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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 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
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Looks Past Thinking
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
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
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Cds Difference Thinking
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Device Easiest Handbook Predicted Things
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Avant Done Garde Research
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying

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

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