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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening
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
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
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
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
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
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
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
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something

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