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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.

Brian Eno

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
BRIAN ENO

Clear Floating Ideas
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
BRIAN ENO

Arrows Art Eye Smack
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
BRIAN ENO

Firsts Intrusion Occasional
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.
BRIAN ENO

Hands People Sloppiness
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.
BRIAN ENO

Function Trouble Views
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
BRIAN ENO

Ideas Wrestling Yoga
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
BRIAN ENO

Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
BRIAN ENO

Adjectives Populism Populist
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
BRIAN ENO

Life Normal Persons
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
BRIAN ENO

Being Choose Completely Difficult
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
BRIAN ENO

Jazz Painting Thinking
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
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
BRIAN ENO

Life Mind Past Singular
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
BRIAN ENO

Chord Cutting Guitar Play

The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.

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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.

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