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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.

Brian Eno

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
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
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
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
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
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
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 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
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
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Brother Favorite Game Hobby

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