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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.

Brian Eno

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
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
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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Criped People See Undo Unless
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
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
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
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
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
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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Earth Editing Film Sentence
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
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste

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