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

Brian Eno

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Flirting Ideas Play
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
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
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Looks Past Thinking
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Development Feelings Human
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Mean Moving Play Playing Somebody

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