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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

Brian Eno

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
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
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
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
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
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
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
BRIAN ENO

Become Control Immortal Part

People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

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