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

Brian Eno

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
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
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
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
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
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
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay Thinking
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
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

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

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