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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Brian Eno

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting 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
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space 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
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality

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