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

Brian Eno

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
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
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Computer Driven Technology
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
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
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Fun People Technology
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet

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

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