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

Brian Eno

What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
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
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
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Down Finger High Low Play
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
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
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation

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