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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
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?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
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
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
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
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Compose Firsts Heard Ideas Tape
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
BRIAN ENO

Country Hip Hop House Person
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

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