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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Brian Eno

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
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’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
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.
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Categories Sometimes Term
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People Song Track
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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’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
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World

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