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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.

Brian Eno

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Believe Kindness Thinking
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
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
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
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 who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
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 want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Function Trouble Views
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Hands People Sloppiness

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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