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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

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
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Avant Done Garde Research
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
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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Piano Simple White
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
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
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
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
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 problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem

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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